"The best poetry has its roots in the subconscious to a great degree. Youth, naivety, reliance on instinct more than learning and method, a sense of freedom and play, even trust in randomness, is necessary to the making of a poem."

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Source : May Swenson, Gardner McFall (1998). “Made with words”, Univ of Michigan Pr

May Swenson

#Play Quotes #Roots Quotes #Naivety Quotes

“The love of Christ both wounds and heals, it fascinates and frightens, it kills and makes alive, it draws and repulses. There can be nothing more terrible or wonderful than to be stricken with love for Christ so deeply that the whole being goes out in a pained adoration of His person, an adoration that disturbs and disconcerts while it purges and satisfies and relaxes the deep inner heart.”
“There is one thing that 99 percent of 'failures' and 'successful' folks have in common - they all hate doing the same things. The difference is successful people do them anyway.”
“I hate the business part of music. Music is just like the streets. There's loyal and disloyal people, people saying one thing and then don't do it.”

Source : Source: www.thefader.com
“Your chemistry high school teacher lied to you when they told you that there was such a thing as a vacuum, that you could take space and move every particle out of it.”
“The true philosophy, known and practiced by Solomon, is the basis on which Masonry is founded.”

Source : "Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry".
“Interfaces called transparent allow us to interact/do what we're supposed to do without being aware of how the effects are obtained. We should perhaps speak instead about their opacity, given that we cannot see through them to the machine.”
“I would think Until I found Something I can never find; - Something Lying On the ground, In the bottom Of my mind.”

Source : James Stephens (1962). “A James Stephens Reader”
“We should bear the intelligence and taste of the architect or the gardener in how we shape the becoming of our self. Too much precision ("stringency") is simply misplaced, a formalism inappropriate to the kind of matter we have to deal with (and to be).”

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