"The materials for poetry are all about you in profusion."

-- Masaoka Shiki

#Materials Quotes

“I just am not good at math.”
“I didn't know the organization, but the one thing you can say about the FBI, it's tremendously professional.”
“When I'm teaching, I tell the story of this painting for two reasons. First of all, if you want a good solid color structure, you have to have a solid development in values, dark and light. Second, if you have a good design, don't leave it if you fail to render it to its full extent the first time around. Remember it's the design that's important. Try and try till you get the thing to work. That's why The Pattern Makers is a key picture in my painting career.”
“If reason is a universal faculty, the decision of the common mind is the nearest criterion of truth.”
“Actually, I tossed it nicely, landed nicely, like airplane. No warning, beautiful. That's the art of throwing racquets.”
“We must depend upon the Boy Scout Movement to produce the MEN of the future.”
“While cares will drop off like autumn leaves.”
“It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.”

Source : Katherine Mansfield, Margaret Scott (1997). “The Katherine Mansfield notebooks”

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