"What can be explained is not poetry."

--

William Butler Yeats

#Life Quotes #Poetry Quotes

“My wife went off with Elvis.”
“I'm an indulgent writer - I'm not sure, however, that's something I'm interested in changing. Writing should be indulgent: you should take big risks on the page, you should make big mistakes, you should be excessive at times. I let myself do as a writer what I probably would be less likely to allow as an editor.”
“What did Citibank get out of it? It got the ability to reverse the arbitrage. Actually, what they got was the ability to give themselves a profit, and that saved the bank.”
“A ship under sail and a big-bellied woman, Are the handsomest two things that can be seen common.”
“Could the straggling thoughts of individuals be collected, they would frequently form materials for wise and able men to improve into useful matter.”
“There is no excitement anywhere in the world, short of war, to match the excitement of the American presidential campaign.”
“But the way I see it, dying without knowing love would be a tragedy.”
“There are so many more productive things to do than sit around feeling shame and guilt. Beyond touching on shame and guilt in a perfunctory manner, I wouldn't bother with that at all.”

Source : Source: thequietus.com

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