3 posts tagged “quotes”
"Over half of relationships that end in a verbal war could at least be on speaking terms again if at least one of the combatants realized what verbal artillery to use and what verbal artillery not to use -- if you ever expect to have a drink with this person again, much less anything else"
Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is in a language he has barely mastered.
Leonard Cohen
"The progress of an artist is continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality. Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it’s not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But of course only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape these things."
T.S. Eliot
"Writing is one method of dealing with being human or wanting to suicide cause in order to write you kill yourself at the same time while remaining alive."
Kathy Acker
“I’m spiritually bankrupt.”
Woody Allen
