"[Robert] Frost says in a piece of homely doggerel that he has hoped wisdom could be not only Attic but Laconic, Boeotian even "at least not systematic"; but how systematically Frostian the worst of his later poems are! His good poems are the best refutation of, the most damning comment on, his bad: his Complete Poems have the air of being able to educate any faithful reader into tearing out a third of the pages, reading a third, and practically wearing out the rest."

-- Randall Jarrell

#Reading Quotes #Air Quotes #Faithful Quotes

“... that's one of the cool things about going to local bars: seeing what people are doing and jamming with them. I'm a huge advocate of jamming with others; you learn a lot. So I love to go and do that - even if people wipe the stage up with you..”
“I was secretly convinced that with such a marvel one would be able to write anything, from novels to encyclopedias, and letters whose supernatural power would surpass any postal limitations--a letter written with that pen would reach the most remote corners of the world, even that unknowable place to which my father said my mother had gone and from where she would never return.”
“I still got a lot of grudges, it's high time we take out some judges.”
“For at the center of all spiritual traditions is the beacon of a truly radical proposal: Open your heart to everybody. Everybody.”

Source : Marc Ian Barasch (2010). “The Compassionate Life: Walking the Path of Kindness”, p.11, ReadHowYouWant.com
“What are you waiting for in order to give up?”
“If I am feeling musical and I pick up the guitar, usually something will eventually come out and I'll see where it goes.”
“Freedom is when one hears the bell at seven o'clock in the morning and knows it is the milkman and not the Gestapo.”
“It is better, I think, to grab at the stars than to sit flustered because you know you cannot reach them.”

Source : R.A. Salvatore (2009). “Sojourn: The Legend of Drizzt”, p.167, Wizards of the Coast

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