"Excellence in art is to be attained only by active effort, and not by passive impressions; by the manly overcoming of difficulties, by patient struggle against adverse circumstance, by the thrifty use of moderate opportunities. The great artists were not rocked and dandled into eminence, but they attained to it by that course of labor and discipline which no man need go to Rome or Paris or London to enter upon."

-- George Stillman Hillard

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“I'm truly an outsider in the poetry world. When I started writing, I was trying to move my poems away from modernist lines.”
“The most amazing fact about Jesus, unlike almost any other religious founder, is that he found God in disorder and imperfectionâ€”and told us that we must do the same or we would never be content on this earth.”
“I invested, and I protected myself, so I enjoy that freedom.”
“In your language you have a form of poetry called the sonnetâ€¦There are fourteen lines, I believe, all in iambic pentameter. Thatâ€™s a very strict rhythm or meterâ€¦And each line has to end with a rigid pattern. And if the poet does not do it exactly this way, it is not a sonnetâ€¦But within this strict form the poet has complete freedom to say whatever he wantsâ€¦Youâ€™re given the form, but you have to write the sonnet yourself. What you say is completely up to you.”
“Eight years after Reagan's nomination for president, the conservative movement is directionless”
“Instead of just recording reality, photographs have become the norm for the way things appear to us, thereby changing the very idea of reality and of realism.”
“Grace is always given freely by God, but grace received should always issue in a joyous delight in Him.”
“Every child has his own beauty, her own talents. Ikarus Jackson can fly through the air; I want kids to find their own set of wings and soar with him.”

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