"I believed that I wanted to be a poet, but deep down I wanted to be a poem."

-- Jaime Gil de Biedma

#Poet Quotes #Wanted Quotes

“In times of death and famine, reason is on the side of the priests-who have their own kind of logic which cries for miracles and, on occasion, invents them.”
“The pursuit of perfection always implies a definite aristocracy, which is as much a goal of effort as a noble philosophy, an august civil polity or a great art.”

Source : RALPH ADAMS CRAM (1922). “TOWARDS THE GREAT PEACE”
“In the year since we brought things into the open with a clean breath of fresh air at City Hall, we have learned about corrupt spending practices and unethical conflicts of interest that waste your money... and keep Dallas from being the great city of our dreams.”
“In the Twentieth Century war will be dead, the scaffold will be dead, hatred will be dead, frontier boundaries will be dead, dogmas will be dead; man will live. He will possess something higher than all these-a great country, the whole earth, and a great hope, the whole heaven.”
“I am the daughter of the Chairman of the Board and thus, was raised with great music.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Life and work are not things apart. Work is more than gaining privileges and possessions; it is ongoing, ecstatic, LIVING experience. When we tap into living experience, we no longer feel as though we must be king. We can just be ALIVE at work! When we live in the bliss, there is no difficulty which is insurmountable. If we miss the bliss, there is no compensation which is adequate.”
“Mainly because as women's education increases all around the planet, we find that family size tends to drop.”
“Creativity needs a bit of untidiness. Make everything too neat and there is no room for experiment.”

Source : Charles Handy (2008). “The Hungry Spirit: New Thinking for a New World”, p.35, Random House

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