"What can we do but keep on breathing in and out, modest and willing, and in our places?"

-- Mary Oliver

#Life Quotes #Breathing Quotes #Modest Quotes

“Land on Mars, a round-trip ticket - half a million dollars. It can be done.”
“I'm sensitive about the criticism [for not producing new playwrights], yes. But I'm hip to it as well. I read 500 new plays a year, and 99.99 percent of them are not good. I see no reason to do a new play just because it's new. It's like kissing your sister, a virtue, but so what? It seems to me more worthwhile to take a proven playwright and say, Write something for us.”
“To surrender one's vulnerable body to water has always seemed to me a limpid act of will that has no coutnerpart or equal, unless it is sex.”

Source : Barbara Grizzuti Harrison (1997). “An Accidental Autobiography”, Mariner Books
“Poetry springs from something deeper; it's beyond intelligence.”
“People want to be special. I think ambition can take in a whole package of things, power or sexual excitement.”

Source : "James Wolcott’s Old New York". Interview with Royal Young, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 25, 2011.
“This duality has been reflected in classical as well as modern literature as reason versus passion, or mind versus intuition. The split between the conscious mind and the unconscious. There are moments in each of our lives when our verbal-intellect suggests one course, and our hearts, or intuition, another.”
“Jesus said, "I am the way, the truth, and the life." In order for you yourself to become the way, the truth, and the life, you must embrace the whole universe and bring harmony to it.”

Source : "For Whom Are We Living" by Sun Myung Moon, April 7, 1957.
“Art is a wholly physical language whose words are all the visible objects.”

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