"... what is great poetry, after all, but the continuation of the human voice after death?"

-- Erica Jong

#Voice Quotes #After Death Quotes #Great Poetry Quotes

“Patriotism, often a thinly veiled form of collective self-worship, celebrates our goodness, our ideals, our mercy and bemoans the perfidiousness of those who hate us.”
“Abstraction has always been around, since the drawings in the caves. It exists in all cultures all over the world. I thought for a while that it was going to be the major movement. But people always drift back to realism. I guess there is a certain security in that.”
“The feelings of being in the audience and being on the podium are very far apart. When you're onstage and something goes wrong, you can do something about it. In the audience, you just have to sit there, and if it's a disastrous performance, I'm the one that gets blamed.”

Source : Source: www.sfgate.com
“Islands are reminders of arrivals and departures.”
“It is important that early in life you choose companionable prejudices, for the fact is that they are likely to stay with you for a lifetime.”
“What a general could do, Thomas did; no more dependable soldier for a moment of crisis existed on the North American continent, or ever did exist... Thomas comes down in history as the Rock of Chickamauga, the great defensive fighter, the man who could never be driven away but who was not much on the offensive. That may be a correct appraisal, Yet it may also be worth making note that just twice in all the war was a major Confederate army driven away from a prepared position in complete rout - at Chattanooga and at Nashville. Each time the blow that routed it was launched by Thomas.”
“When anyone escapes, my heart / leaps up. Even when it's I who am escaped from, / I am half on the side of the leaver.”

Source : "Pulitzer Prize-Winner Sharon Olds Talks Poetry, Divorce" By Brittany Wong, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 17, 2013.
“To succeed at re-engineering, you have to be a missionary, a motivator, and a leg breaker.”

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