Sara Teasdale Quotes
Joy was a flame in me Too steady to destroy. Lithe as a bending reed, Loving the storm that sways her
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When you are young, hone your craft and write shorter pieces instead of novels, because it's really hard to finish a novel.
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I never personally complained; everybody else complained for me.
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More and more, cultural groups are cross-pollinating, and we're getting much more interesting art as a result.
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Genius and virtue are to be more often found clothed in gray than in peacock bright.
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I knew that it was my only shot to be taken seriously in the recording industry, because it's fast and broad.
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The sounder your argument, the more satisfaction you get out of it.
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My recipe for life is not being afraid of myself, afraid of what I think or of my opinions.
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I always loved to read, and I wanted to be part of the project of literature. My physical longevity is due to luck, and my literary longevity is due to my physical longevity.
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I have a rich, full, textured life.
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To think is to destroy. The very process of thought indicates it for the same thought, as thinking is decomposing.
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The more you know, the less you are impressed by Foucault.
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The symbol and the metaphor are as necessary to science as to poetry.
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I don’t answer to anyone.
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People associate me with a time when movies were pleasant, when women wore pretty dresses in films and you heard beautiful music. I always love it when people write me and say 'I was having a rotten time, and I walked into a cinema and saw one of your movies, and it made such a difference.'
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My goal keeps me alive, and no personal issue is going to interfere with that. If people try to put me in the crazy box–'crazy fucking Courtney'–go ahead. But if you think you’re going to stop me from where I’m going, you’re not going to do it. I work my ass off. I deliver the goddamn goods. And I will deliver them again.
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It's so easy to laugh, it's so easy to hate, it takes strength to be gentle and kind.
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With hacky sack, somebody brought one to recess in sixth grade and it kind of all went downhill from there! The same with the yoyo's! One kid brought a yoyo one day and people started getting them. I just kept at it and found that I really loved it.
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We've always been into juicing. It's one of the things that my wife likes to do. She's a vegetarian, so she loves to juice. And I'm a big health freak - well, when I feel like being it.
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Focusing on one thing without interruption is how you get meaningful work done.
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When some systems are stuck in a dangerous impasse, randomness and only randomness can unlock them and set them free.
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The 1960s was a heroic age in the history of the art of communication - the audacious movers and shakers of those times bear no resemblance to the cast of characters in 'Mad Men.'
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The tea ceremony requires years of training and practice ... yet the whole of this art, as to its detail, signifies no more than the making and serving of a cup of tea. The supremely important matter is that the act be performed in the most perfect, most polite, most graceful, most charming manner possible.
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Marrying to increase love is like gaming to become rich; alas, you only lose what little stock you had before.
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Joy was a flame in me Too steady to destroy. Lithe as a bending reed, Loving the storm that sways her
