top of page
More

"Always seek beauty to create a beautiful life."
Author Name
Personal Development

"For a poet he threw a very accurate milk bottle."
Author Name
Personal Development

"I'm trying in all my stories to get the feeling of the actual life across-not to just depict life-or criticize it-but to actually make it alive. So that when you have read something by me you actually experience the thing. You can't do this without putting in the bad and the ugly as well as what is beautiful. Because if it is all beautiful you can't believe in it. Things aren't that way."
Author Name
Personal Development

"Make movies my friend " make nice, inspiring and bold movies that will penetrate the darkest corners of the human mind and illuminate the soul."
Author Name
Personal Development

"For poetry was all written before time was, and whenever we are so finely organized that we can penetrate into that region where the air is music, we hear those primal warblings and attempt to write them down, but we lose ever and anon a word or a verse and substitute something of our own, and thus miswrite the poem. The men of more delicate ear write down these cadences more faithfully, and these transcripts, though imperfect, become the songs of the nations."
Author Name
Personal Development

"Music gives life to the soul."
Author Name
Personal Development

"Some writers closet themselves - I write wherever I am because that's where life is happening ..."
Author Name
Personal Development

"Music gives strength to the soul."
Author Name
Personal Development

"Poetry most often communicates emotions, not directly, but by creating imaginatively the grounds for those emotions. It therefore communicates something more than the emotion; only by means of that something more does it communicate the emotion at all."
Author Name
Personal Development

"The life of a writer is directed by a mad impulsive muse, that can tell them to cancel all their storyline: a creative divergent devil."
Author Name
Personal Development
More

"Experience is not worth the getting. It's not a thing that happens pleasantly to a passive you--it's a wall that an active you runs up against."
Experience

"That most limited of all specialists, the "well-rounded man"."
Work

"I wouldn't ask too much of her,' I ventured. 'You can't change the past.''Can't change the past?' he cried incredulously. 'Why of course you can!"
Time

"If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life, as if he were related to one of those intricate machines that registered earthquakes ten thousand miles away."
Identity

"Human sympathy has its limits."
Emotion

"There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions, who will do anything. Of course we make him pay afterward for his moment of superiority, his moment of impressiveness."
Strength

". . . confirmed libertines don't reform until they're tired . . ."
Behavior

"Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions."
People

"Amory thought how it was only the past that seemed strange and unbelievable."
Reflection

"I don't want just words. If that's all you have for me, you'd better go."
Relationship
bottom of page