"Poetry teaches us music, metaphor, condensation and specificity."

-- Walter Mosley

#Metaphor Quotes #Teach Quotes #Condensation Quotes

“Humor levels the playing field. I understood that early on - that was something I had.”
“I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.”
“Basically everything I've done in art, I was in possession of when I was 20 years old. I use a waste retrieval method of working. I'll go back and use something that disgusted me 15 years ago but that I had enough sense to think about. Some artists change dramatically. I see my work more like history being written.”
“The deeper you love yourself, the more the universe will affirm your worth. Then you can enjoy a lifelong love affair that brings you the richest fulfillment from inside out.”
“I regard Heart-Master Adi Da as one of the greatest teachers in the Western world today.”
“When you control seed you control food”
“A lot of white-collar work requires less of the routine, rule-based, what we might call algorithmic set of capabilities, and more of the harder-to-outsource, harder-to-automate, non-routine, creative, juristic - as the scholars call it - abilities.”
“To govern is to correct. If you set an example by being correct, who would dare remain incorrect?”

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