“You can change the world again, instead of protecting yourself from it.”
― Julien Smith
I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself.
I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself.
― D.H. Lawrence
Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found its words.
Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found its words.
― Robert Frost
Possibilities
“When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this - you haven't.”
“Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.”
― Thomas A. Edison
“Freedom lies in being bold.”
“Freedom lies in being bold.”
– Robert Frost
I don’t want to be king, I want to be real.
I don’t want to be king, I want to be real.
― John Lennon
“We all have / Reasons for moving.”
“We all have / Reasons for moving.”
— Mark Strand
Leonard Cohen on Creativity
From Brain Pickings - Leonard Cohen on Creativity:
Considering his ongoing interest in the process itself rather than the outcome, Leonard Cohen makes a case for the art of self-renewal by exploring the deeper rewards and gratifications that have kept him going for half a century:
It [has] to do with two things. One is economic urgency. I just never made enough money to say, “Oh, man, I think I’m gonna get a yacht now and scuba-dive.” I never had those kinds of funds available to me to make radical decisions about what I might do in life. Besides that, I was trained in what later became known as the Montreal School of Poetry. Before there were prizes, before there were grants, before there were even girls who cared about what I did. We would meet, a loosely defined group of people. There were no prizes, as I said, no rewards other than the work itself. We would read each other poems. We were passionately involved with poems and our lives were involved with this occupation…
We had in our minds the examples of poets who continued to work their whole lives. There was never any sense of a raid on the marketplace, that you should come up with a hit and get out. That kind of sensibility simply did not take root in my mind until very recently…
So I always had the sense of being in this for keeps, if your health lasts you. And you’re fortunate enough to have the days at your disposal so you can keep on doing this. I never had the sense that there was an end.