"In working on a poem, I love to revise. Lots of younger poets don't enjoy this, but in the process of revision I discover things"

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Rita Dove

#Revision Quotes #Poet Quotes #Process Quotes

“How many people do you know who are obsessed with their work, who are type A or have stress related diseases and who canâ€™t slow down? They canâ€™t slow down because they use their routine to distract themselves, to reduce life to only its practical considerations. And they do this to avoid recalling how uncertain they are about why they live.”

Source : James Redfield (1993). “The celestine prophecy: an adventure”, Atticus Press & Company (AL)
“No endeavor that is worthwhile is simple in prospect; if it is right, it will be simple in retrospect.”

Source : Edward Teller (1981). “The Pursuit of Simplicity”, Pepperdine Press
“You must achieve the confidence of knowing that you possess absolute, unbending, unimpeachable integrity. Everyone must know that. Above all else, it is integrity that defines your character.”
“The seemingly insuperable difficulties of deep-space travel suggest an intention to keep us fixed at home in our own solar system, and the physical nature of our part of the Universe, as well as the basic rules of physics and chemistry, have a warning look about them, like barriers designed to isolate intelligent life. This means that for us, unlike the situation for humble microorganisms, deep-space travel is probably a stark impossibility.”
“Mathematics may be the only exception in the sciences that leaves no room for skepicism. But, if mathematical results are exact as no empirical law can ever be, philosophers have discovered that they are not absolutely novel - instead, they are tautological.”
“God is not a God of the edges, with a vested interest in beginnings. God is the God of the whole show.”

Source : "Quarks, Chaos & Christianity". Book by John Polkinghorne, 1994.
“Life is a mirror. You get what you see. If you project anger into the mirror, that is what you get back. If you project joy into the mirror, it reflects joy right back to you. Failure for failure. Success for success. What you project is what is reflected back to you.”
“He has been disassembled by her. And if she has brought him to this, what has he brought her to?”

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