Susan Stewart Quotes
Poets writing in English have long learned to mourn from classical precedents. They have drawn on a tradition of pastoral elegies, which incorporate the dead into the cycles of nature, that runs from Theocritus' Idylls to John Milton's 'Lycidas' and Percy Shelley's 'Adonais.'
Quotes to Explore
-
It feels like a game, this work I do. It is totally heartfelt, and I love the sticky terrain, the straight-up cartoons, how the irrepressible and icky rise to the surface. But I am not just trying to call forth bugaboos and demons for the sake of it, for fun.
-
You haven't partied until you've partied at dawn in complete silence with Buddhist monks.
-
That does not mean that we must forego just and fair criticism, or refrain from opposition to policies which are debatable or which do not command our approval.
-
We are building technology to keep up with what's happening in the world. It's transforming the way people are working. We're bringing the enterprise to the world.
-
Seasonality in winter doesn't have to mean sleep-inducing, stew-like, starchy casseroles.
-
Comedians do movies and TV so that when they tour, they sell out. That's the goal: To get popular enough so the place is packed.
-
Technology is one of the key drivers of female economic empowerment, but the fields that women choose to participate in are still decidedly gendered.
-
I'm very humble.
-
We have rules that no longer are relevant to the world we're living in. Our regulatory system can't keep up.
-
Contrary to general belief, an artist is never ahead of his time but most people are far behind theirs.
-
I continue with the illusion of serving Colombia. Only God knows if it were to be from the presidency.
-
Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded, or how much power you have.
-
'I was ordained,' said the preacher. 'No one ordains artists. They ordain themselves.'Just as Taleswapper had expected. The preacher retreated to authority as soon as he feared his ideas could not stand on their own merit. Reasonable argument was impossible when authority became the arbiter.
-
If you want to tell something to an athlete, say it quickly and give no alternatives. This is a game of winning and losing. It is senseless to explain and explain.
-
Creating the world we want is a much more subtle but more powerful mode of operation than destroying the one we don't want.
-
A child's death is really of less value than an adult's. I mean, what could you really accomplish in a year? Not much, and that's not even talking about, you know, pay-wise.
-
Not by wisdom do they poets make what they compose, but by a gift of nature and an inspiration similar to that of the diviners and the oracles.
-
I am a Libertarian. I want to be known as a Libertarian and a Constitutionalist in the tradition of the early James Madison - father of the Constitution. Labels change and perhaps in the old tradition I would be considered one of the original Whigs. The new title I would wear today is that of Conservative, though in its original connotation the term Liberal fits me better than the original meaning of the word Conservative.
-
Every frame of a Coen brothers movie is filled with history and meaning, and the deeper you go, the deeper you get. That's why their movies stand up particularly well to repeated viewing and investigation.
-
I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.
-
What happens to the West happens to Snow White, which is to say they both turn into jokes.
-
Poets writing in English have long learned to mourn from classical precedents. They have drawn on a tradition of pastoral elegies, which incorporate the dead into the cycles of nature, that runs from Theocritus' Idylls to John Milton's 'Lycidas' and Percy Shelley's 'Adonais.'
