"However, I began to submit poems to British magazines, and some were accepted. It was a great moment to see my first poems published. It felt like entering a tradition."

-- Helen Dunmore

#Entering Quotes #Magazines Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“We are difficult. Human beings are difficult. Weâ€™re difficult to ourselves, weâ€™re difficult to each other.”

Source : "Geoffrey Hill, The Art of Poetry No. 80". Interview with Carl Phillips, www.theparisreview.org. Spring 2000.
“One can develop new capacities and strengths with which to meet the natural vicissitudes of living; that one may gain a sense of inner peace through greater self-acceptance, through a more realistic perspective on one's relationships and experiences.”

Source : Eda J. LeShan (1965). “How to survive parenthood”
“Movies are getting more and more expensive to distribute. You need a lot of money to get people into theaters”
“Photography is my method for defining the confusing world that rushes constantly toward me. It is my defensive attempt to reduce our daily chaos to a set of understandable images.”
“The Providence of God is like Hebrew words-it can be read only backwards.”
“I'm usually way more pleased with the stuff that just kinda happens by accident and is no way a pop song. But sometimes the easiest thing for me to write is pop songs.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“What comes from the heart lands on the heart creatively.”
“It was like Iâ€™d stepped out into an afterlife. Only there were no angels.”

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