"Poetry has to be something more than a conception of the mind. It has to be a revelation of nature. Conceptions are artificial. Perceptions are essential."

-- Wallace Stevens

#Mind Quotes #Perception Quotes #Essentials Quotes

“I write music to please myself. Hopefully the director's enjoying it too.”
“Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something.”
“Every time I reach a new audience, that means I'm doing something right.”
“I saw a great bumper sticker that read: 'Do something that scares you every day.' That really stuck with me. I try to live like that.”

Source : Melina Marchetta (2007). “Saving Francesca”, p.197, Knopf Books for Young Readers
“men are so conceited theyâ€™ll believe anything that flatters them”
“I don't ever want to do anything that's obvious, and I also want to find ways to do things that are extremely new and exciting and can make sense in bizarre ways. I always want things to make sense in really bizarre ways.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“I know enough to know that no woman should ever marry a man who hated his mother.”

Source : Martha Gellhorn, Caroline Moorehead (2006). “The letters of Martha Gellhorn”, Vintage
“Dreams are stories made by and for the dreamer...”

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