"Poetry is everywhere; it just needs editing."

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Source : James Tate (1999). “The route as briefed”, Univ of Michigan Pr

James Tate

#Editing Quotes #Poetry Quotes #Needs Quotes

“Use whatever excuse you can to vibrate in harmony with those things you've been saying you want. And when you do, those things that are a vibrational equivalent flow into your experience in abundance. Not because you deserve it, not because you've earned it, but because it's the natural consequence of the Law of Attraction. That which is like unto itself is drawn.”
“I think the environmental movement is now so large and diverse that it's hard to talk of it as a single entity.”
“We forget that IMPOSSIBLE is one of God's favorite words”
“Politicians have responsibility to act if the public opinion changes.”
“Dialogue is not just quotation. It is grimaces, pauses, adjustments of blouse buttons, doodles on a napkin, and crossings of legs”

Source : Jerome Stern (2011). “Making Shapely Fiction”, p.14, W. W. Norton & Company
“The stored-program digital computer has three major attributes: it is fast, it is accurate, and it is stupid. The first two attributes are often used to disguise the third.”
“For the great majority of mankind are satisfied with appearances, as though they were realities, and are often more influenced by the things that seem than by those that are.”
“If the time comes and your dream doesn't seem worth it, then maybe it was the wrong dream.”

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