“If poems very different from my own bring pleasure to a group of readers, who am I to say that the poems should have been written differently?”
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Thoughtful Quotes — page 91 of 303
“Every child has a right to its own bent. . . . It has a right to find its own way and go its own way, whether that way seems wise or foolish to others, exactly as an adult has. It has a right to privacy as to its own doings and its own affairs as much as if it were its own father.”
“One couldn't carry on life comfortably without a little blindness to the fact that everything has been said better than we can put it ourselves.”
“Woe be to him that reads but one book.”
“Please don't make me a joke. End the interview with what I believe. I don't mind making jokes, but I don't want to look like one... I want to be an artist, an actress with integrity...”
“... when we are misunderstood it is always our own fault. What the reader wants most of all is to be able to grasp what we think; but you loftily refuse to comply.”
“Sometimes Aristotle analyses his terms, but very often he takes them for granted; and in the latter case, I think, he is sometimes deceived by them.”
“Memory is man's greatest friend and worst enemy.”
“Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made.”
“We are accustomed to use our eyes only with the memory of what other people before us have thought about the object we are looking at.”
“It always seems to me that so few people live - they just seem to exist and I don't see any reason why we shouldn't live always - til we die physically.”
“Association with human beings lures one into self-observation.”
“This inescapable duty to observe oneself: if someone else is observing me, naturally I have to observe myself too; if none observe me, I have to observe myself all the closer.”
“I'm not a big dreamer. I never have been. I remember fragments of my dream, and I try to take a traditional sort of approach to researching this project and doing preparation for it.”
“Obviously, we suppress things, emotions, things during the day - thoughts that we obviously haven't thought through enough, and in that state of sleep when our subconscious, or mind just sort of randomly fires off different surreal story structures, and when we wake up we should pay attention to these things.”
“What's in a name? That is what we ask ourselves in childhood when we write the name that we are told is ours.”
“I see no advantage in these new clocks. They run no faster than the ones made 100 years ago.”
“Some truths should perhaps be left unsaid. Some doors unopened. An angel once told me to let go of the ills I held too close, to let go of the flaws that shaped me.”
“I am never as clear about any matter as when I have finished writing about it.”
“It quite often happens that the old man is subject to the delusion of a great moral renewal and rebirth, and from this experience he passes judgments on the work and course of his life, as if he had only now become clear-sighted; and yet the inspiration behind this feeling of well-being and these confident judgements is not wisdom, but weariness .”