"If the poem can be improved by the author's explanations, it never should have been published."

-- Archibald MacLeish

#Writing Quotes #Should Quotes #Explanation Quotes

“Optimism with some experience behind it is much more energizing than plain old experience with a certain degree of cynicism.”
“You don't become enormously successful without encountering and overcoming a number of extremely challenging problems.”

Source : FaceBook post by Mark Victor Hansen from Jun 24, 2014
“It is thus religion infatuates man from his infancy, fills him with vanity and fanaticism: if he has a heated imagination it drives him on to fury; if he has activity, it makes him a madman, who is frequently as cruel to himself, as he is dangerous and incommodious to others: if, on the contrary, he be phlegmatic or of a slothful habit, he becomes melancholy and is useless to society.”
“If God is God, we cant be afraid of what we can learn.”

Source : Krista Tippett (2010). “Einstein's God: Conversations About Science and the Human Spirit”, p.13, Penguin
“I love making down-home Southern cooking, and just chilling out and having cakes and pies and baking stuff, you know. I'm a pretty simple girl.”
“The park achieved a kind of reality. Like these virtual reality games the children are playing with. I told them we were doing this 40 years ago! Disneyland is virtual reality.”
“Don't let mistakes be so monumental, don't let your love be so confidential, don't let your mind be so darn judgemental, and please let your heart be more influential. Be thankful for all that the spirit provides and be thankful for all that you see without eyes.”
“What you desire you call into being ...”

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