"Marvelous Truth, confront us at every turn, in every guise."

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Source : Denise Levertov (1983). “Poems of Denise Levertov, 1960-1967”, p.62, New Directions Publishing

Denise Levertov

“The ideal artist is he who knows everything, feels everything, experiences everything, and retains his experience in a spirit of wonder and feeds upon it with creative lust.”

Source : Marjorie B. Searl, George Bellows, Ronald Netsky, University of Rochester. Memorial Art Gallery (2003). “Leaving for the country: George Bellows at Woodstock”, Memorial Art Gallery of Univ
“Ninety percent of cancers are curable in stage one. We spend billions of dollars and over 40 years searching for a cure, and we're not really that close. So why aren't we teaching people the only cure we have now? Early detection is one sh**ty year, versus the rest of your life.”
“I have done what people do, my life makes a reasonable showing. Can I go back to my books now?”

Source : Lynne Sharon Schwartz (2001). “Ruined By Reading: A Life in Books”, p.15, Beacon Press
“Helen Tse tells a gripping tale of struggle, laughter, love and food that marks Sweet Mandarin as a must read book. It is not only an immigrant account of life but also a universal touching story of survival that will move your soul as well.”
“Beware of the problem of testing too many hypotheses; the more you torture the data, the more likely they are to confess, but confessions obtained under duress may not be admissible in the court of scientific opinion.”
“On a surface level, regionalism is gone, if we define regionalism as human culture. But, what if we define regionalism as something older than human culture?”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“As time goes on we become old, the future contracts, the past expands...But by future we don't just mean the years ahead; we always mean as well the plenitude of possibilities which challenge our creativity...In confrontation with the future we can become young if we accept the future's challenges.”
“The whole culture is telling you to hurry, while the art tells you to take your time. Always listen to the art.”

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