"Letters couldn't care less whether what is written with them is true or false."

-- Augusto Roa Bastos

#Care Quotes #Letters Quotes

“Sometimes I scrape off a lot. You have on the floor, like cow dung in the field, this big glob of paint... and it's just a lot of inert matter, inert paint. Then I look back at the canvas, and it's not inert - it's active, moving and living.”
“I think women today are so overwhelmed and overtaxed.”
“Quite a few musicians came to our house. And my ma took me to hear many more, hoping to encourage in me a love of music. But she wouldnt consent to my having music lessons, for she feared I might end up as she had done - unable to play except from paper.”
“There is no point in asking me general questions because I am always changing my mind.”

Source : "Houellebecq acquitted of insulting Islam". www.theguardian.com. October 22, 2002.
“All the truly deep people have at the core of their being the genius to be simple or to know how to seek simplicity”
“The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others.”
“Food is much better off the hand than the fork.”
“Poetry is very playful with language. I think all poetry, at its heart, is playful. It's doing unusual and playful things with the language, stirring it up. And prose is not doing that. Primarily it's not attempting to do that.”

Source : "A Conversation with Pattiann Rogers". Interview with Carolyn Perry, Wayne Zade, poems.com. 2009.

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