"Love is not love until love's vulnerable."

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Source : Theodore Roethke (2011). “The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke”, p.177, Anchor

Theodore Roethke

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“Experiment - exercising to see the result. We planned Europa not as an experiment in this sense but as a work of art. Yet The Eye and the Ear was done as a consciously designed experiment. Not every avant-garde dealt with experiments and not every experiment equalled avant-garde.”
“The best we can do then, in response to our incomprehensible and dangerous world, is to practice holding equilibrium internally - no matter what insanity is transpiring out there.”

Source : Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.196, A&C Black
“Belief is reassuring. People who live in the world of belief feel safe. On the contrary, faith is forever placing us on the razor's edge.”

Source : Jacques Ellul (2012). “Living Faith: Belief and Doubt in a Perilous World”, p.112, Wipf and Stock Publishers
“There is no stillness like the quiet of the first cold nights in the fall.”

Source : Carson McCullers (2005). “The Ballad of the Sad Cafe”, p.44, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“When Callas carried a grudge, she planted it, nursed it, fostered it, watered it and watched it grow to sequoia size.”

Source : Harold C. Schonberg (1985). “The virtuosi: classical music's legendary performers from Paganini to Pavarotti”, Vintage
“When I put some Tabasco on things, and there's really nothing in Tabasco, it's not bad for you in any way, so that's kind of become my substitute. Now you got to get used to a hot mouth, but that's okay.”
“I think a person can learn. Basically, I think anything is possible.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“The pro athlete is a sad tale. He signs a big contract and thinks he's set for life. I didn't think I was set for life, and I don't now. As athletes, we are important, celebrities, in demand and rich. Then we are out of the game and we are not important, not celebrities, not in demand and not rich.”

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