"it is as unseeing to ask what is the use of poetry as it would be to ask what is the use of religion."

-- Edith Sitwell

#Poetry Quotes #Would Be Quotes #Use Quotes

“The real secret to freedom seems to lie in the ability to deal with ambiguity, the capacity to tolerate noise and yet hear within its wild randomizing abandon the possibilities of innovation and transformations.”
“If you truly love someone, then the only thing you want for them is to be happy....even if its not with you.”
“Life will always be to a large extent what we ourselves make it.”

Source : Samuel Smiles (1872). “Character”, p.371
“That's writing for you: when you make space for passion, it doesn't turn up.”
“Setbacks have an upside; they fuel new dreams.”
“Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant. Let me expand a bit. I sense that you may feel that I am free of problems. Let me assure you that I have the same anxieties and insecurities as anyone in this auditorium - maybe more.”
“Some readers read a book as if it were an instruction manual, expecting to understand everything first time, but of course when you write, you put into every sentence an overflow of meaning, and you create in every sentence as many resonances and double meanings and ambiguities as you can possibly pack in there, so that people can read it again and get something new each time.”
“Many ... have tremendous God-given gifts, but they don't focus on the development of those gifts. Who are these individuals? You've never heard of them- and you never will .”

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