#age

I didn't choose Russia but Russia chose me. I had been fascinated from an early age by the culture, the language, the literature and the history to the place. ↗

— Helen Dunmore

#been #choose #chose #culture #early

All that a critic, as critic, can give poets is the deadly encouragement that never ceases to remind them of how heavy their inheritance is. ↗

— Harold Bloom

#critic #deadly #encouragement #give #heavy

The language has got to be fully alive - I can't bear dull, flaccid writing myself and I don't see why any reader should put up with it. ↗

— Helen Dunmore

#any #bear #dull #fully #fully alive

In our struggle to restrain the violence and contain the damage, we tend to forget that the human capacity for aggression is more than a monstrous defect, that it is also a crucial survival tool. ↗

— Katherine Dunn

#also #capacity #contain #crucial #damage

There ain't any news in being good. You might write the doings of all the convents of the world on the back of a postage stamp, and have room to spare. ↗

— Finley Peter Dunne

#back #being #doings #good #might

Shakespeare is the true multicultural author. He exists in all languages. He is put on the stage everywhere. Everyone feels that they are represented by him on the stage. ↗

— Harold Bloom

#everyone #everywhere #exists #feels #him

I wanted to feel like an artist for once in my life. I wanted to use other producers for respect, to let them know that I listen to other people's music and that I'm just not out here on my own page. ↗

— Jermaine Dupri

#feel #here #i #just #know

What we call a poem is mostly what is not there on the page. The strength of any poem is the poems that it has managed to exclude. ↗

— Harold Bloom

#call #exclude #managed #mostly #page

In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order. ↗

— Will Durant

#discovery #freedom #great #great discovery #i

A friend told me that teenage girls are always looking for someone to pin their dreams on. That doesn't make it any less weird though. ↗

— Orlando Bloom

#any #dreams #friend #less #looking