"Just when I thought there wasn't room enough for another thought in my head, I had this great ideaâ€”"

-- John Ashbery

#Ideas Quotes #Rooms Quotes #Enough Quotes

“This is slavery, not to speak one's thought.”
“However great the work that God may achieve by an individual, he must not indulge in self-satisfaction. He ought rather to be all the more humbled, seeing himself merely as a tool which God has made use of.”
“I can bear pain myself, he said softly, but I couldna bear yours. That would take more strength than I have.”
“Poetry is not a civilizer, rather the reverse, for great poetry appeals to the most primitive instincts.”

Source : Robinson Jeffers, Tim Hunt (1988). “The Collected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers: Poetry 1903-1920, prose, and unpublished writings”, p.425, Stanford University Press
“Putting on fierce boots is an instant pick-me-up.”
“My second favorite household chore is ironing. My first being hitting my head on the top bunk bed until I faint.”
“I think of myself in the oral tradition-as a troubadour, a village tale-teller, the man in the shadows of the campfire. That's the way I'd like to be remembered- as a storyteller. A good storyteller.”
“Here's what I think," I say and my voice is stronger and thoughts are coming, thoughts that trickle into my noise like whispers of truth. "I think maybe everybody falls," I say. "I think maybe we all do. And I don't think that's the asking." I pull on her arms gently to make sure she's listening. "I think the asking is whether we get back up again.”

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