#eat

Constantly risking absurdity and death whenever he performs above the heads of his audience, the poet, like an acrobat, climbs on rhyme to a high wire of his own making. ↗

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti

#absurdity #audience #climbs #constantly #death

Everything the Beats stood for was the opposite of the dominant culture today. ↗

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti

#culture #dominant #everything #opposite #stood

One of the most considerable advantages the great have over their inferiors is to have servants as good as themselves. ↗

— Miguel de Cervantes

#considerable #good #great #inferiors #most

I think if there's a great depression there might be some hope. ↗

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti

#great #great depression #hope #i #i think

As soon as I read that, it clicked: that's my theater of war. It was exciting to think that I could write about World War Two from a totally new place. ↗

— Michael Chabon

#clicked #could #exciting #i #new

I believe my publisher has shown a great deal of faith in me over a lot of years but I'm not prepared to be so arrogant to say that the long-term literary value of my work would compensate them for a financial failure. ↗

— Andrew Vachss

#believe #compensate #deal #failure #faith

Base Ball, to be played thoroughly, requires the possession of muscular strength, great agility, quickness of eye, readiness of hand, and many other faculties of mind and body that mark the man of nerve. ↗

— Henry Chadwick

#ball #base #body #eye #faculties

If I create from the heart, nearly everything works; if from the head, almost nothing. ↗

— Marc Chagall

#create #everything #head #heart #i

Israelis can be proud of the vibrant democracy that they have created, and I know that many Rhode Islanders share my deep appreciation for the close friendship between our two nations. ↗

— Lincoln Chafee

#between #close #created #deep #democracy

If you're feeling emotional when you're creating something, it'll sound that way. ↗

— Steve Vai

#emotional #feeling #something #sound #way