“Proper names are poetry in the raw. Like all poetry they are untranslatable.”
Quotes to Get Motivated · Page 13
High-energy words to get you off the couch and into action.
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“A poet's hope: to be, like some valley cheese, local, but prized elsewhere.”
“It is folly to anticipate evils, and madness to create imaginary ones.”
“It is with noble sentiments that bad literature gets written.”
“The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.”
“One's religion is whatever he is most interested in, and yours is Success.”
“Often must you turn your pencil to erase, if you hope to write something worth a second reading.”
“Enjoy the present smiling hour, And put it out of Fortune's power.”
“The mountains will be in labor, and a ridiculous mouse will be brought forth.”
“What the cinema can do better than literature or the spoken drama is to be fantastic.”
“After silence that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.”
“Art would not be important if life were not important, and life is important.”
“Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.”