"She lives the poetry she cannot write."

--

Oscar Wilde

#Writing Quotes

“This poetry. I never know what I'm going to say. I don't plan it. When I'm outside the saying of it, I get very quiet and rarely speak at all.”
“We no longer have a free market in the United States, we have a government controlled free market.”
“The only way to get change is not through the courts or â€” heaven forbid â€” the politicians, but through a change of human consciousness and through a change of heart. Only through the arts â€” music, poetry, dance, painting, writing â€” "can we really reach each other,”
“I became a loner. I became a mountain man. A lot of those things are very good qualities and they help you do your work, help you be singular and keep the artistic integrity of your work intact, but they don't make it very easy to live your life.”
“Suddenly for no earthly reason I felt immensely sorry for him and longed to say something real, something with wings and a heart, but the birds I wanted settled on my shoulders and head only later when I was alone and not in need of words.”
“I don't study; I create.”
“As you shift and change your own experience, the experience of the whole human race begins to shift and change as well. So this is important work you are doing, this business of changing your life.”
“I never defended myself. Not once. I never said, "Excuse me? What gives you the right to insult and demean me?" I let them steal my dignity.”

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