Ada Louise Huxtable Quotes
Every creative act draws on the past whether it pretends to or not. It draws on what it knows. There's no such thing, really, as a creative act in a vacuum.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm most at home on the stage. I was carried onstage for the first time when I was six months old.
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This life will never be without storms. Stop fearing the storm. Build your inner shelter.
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How little people know who think that holiness is dull... When one meets the real thing, it's irresistible!
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There's almost no content in terms of language at all. I don't like using language to convey meaning. I'd rather use images and music.
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First a warning, musical; then the hour, irrevocable. The leaden circles dissolved in the air.
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Poetry is like a puzzle-solving strategy for me. I like to poem my way through tricky questions and ideas. That's about the only consistent thread through my poem-creation process.
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There is no clear place to draw the line once you eliminate the traditional marriage, and it's the same once you start putting limits on what guns can be used, then it's just really easy to have laws that make them all illegal.
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The human understanding when it has once adopted an opinion (either as being the received opinion or as being agreeable to itself) draws all things else to support and agree with it.
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If it were possible to have a life absolutely free from every feeling of sin, what a terrifying vacuum it would be.
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That'd be good. That'd be a right good laugh, man. Ye cannae catch me shuttin' up, man
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The problem with relying on nostalgia for commentary is that people only remember the good things.
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Every creative act draws on the past whether it pretends to or not. It draws on what it knows. There's no such thing, really, as a creative act in a vacuum.
