"He that would earn the Poet's sacred name, Must write for future as for present ages."

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Source : Christopher Pearse Cranch (1844). “Poems”, p.38

Christopher Pearse Cranch

#Writing Quotes #Names Quotes #Poetry Quotes

“What is forgotten, however, is that many times the Good we create leads to Evil that will destroy us.”
“The biggest problems were to do with... well, to get that successful when you're so young, it attracts hangers-on, parasites, people who want to feed off you.”

Source : "Mike Oldfield Interview for the Re-release of Tubular Bells". Interview with David Cheal, www.telegraph.co.uk. June 10, 2009.
“That sucks, though," Wes said finally, his voice low. "You're just setting yourself up to fail, because you'll never get everything perfect." "Says who?" He just looked at me. "The world," he said, gesturing all around us, as if this party, this deck encompassed it all. "The universe. There's just no way. And why would you want everything to be perfect, anyway?" "I don't want everything to be perfect," I said. Just me, I thought. Somehow. "I just wantâ€””
“Christianity doesnâ€™t deny the reality of suffering and evilâ€¦ Our hopeâ€¦ is not based on the idea that we are going to be free of pain and suffering. Rather, it is based on the conviction that we will triumph over suffering.”
“As to the idea that advertising motivates people, remember the Edsel.”
“Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.”
“A sentence begins quite simply, then it undulates and expands, parentheses intervene like quick-set hedges, the flowers of comparison bloom, and three fields off, like a wounded partridge, crouches the principal verb, making one wonder as one picks it up, poor little thing, whether after all it was worth such a tramp, so many guns, and such expensive dogs, and what, after all, is its relation to the main subject, potted so gaily half a page back, and proving finally to have been in the accusative case.”
“You can't win every week.”

Source : Caryl Churchill (2008). “Plays Four”, Nick Hern Books

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