#gr

What motivates me in art is the ugly and beautiful nature of the truth. It has to be truthful and honest, even if it is ugly and grotesque. ↗

— Corin Nemec

#beautiful #even #grotesque #honest #me

Obvious enough that generalities work to protect the mind from the great outdoors; is it possible that this was in fact their first purpose? ↗

— Howard Nemerov

#fact #first #generalities #great #in fact

Robert Frost had always said you mustn't think of the last line first, or it's only a fake poem, not a real one. I'm inclined to agree. ↗

— Howard Nemerov

#always #fake #first #frost #had

When I was starting to write, the great influence was T.S. Eliot and after that William Butler Yeats. ↗

— Howard Nemerov

#butler #eliot #great #i #influence

When modern writers gave up telling stories, they gave up the greatest thing we had. ↗

— Howard Nemerov

#greatest #greatest thing #had #modern #stories

The first moments of sleep are an image of death; a hazy torpor grips our thoughts and it becomes impossible for us to determine the exact instant when the "I," under another form, continues the task of existence. ↗

— Gerard De Nerval

#becomes #continues #death #determine #exact

Interviews are usually a follow-up, like a press junket or a publicity junket, or something like that, and I'm not doing any of that right now. I don't have any axes to grind. ↗

— Michael Nesmith

#axes #doing #follow-up #grind #i

The Obama presidency has two great missions: fixing the economy, and preventing Iran from gaining nuclear weapons. ↗

— Benjamin Netanyahu

#fixing #gaining #great #iran #missions

There's this notion that allows people to create their own collection of songs, so it rewrites what a song is. They may only want 10 seconds of something, or they may only want this particular song, or they want this group of songs. It becomes much more user-controlled. ↗

— Michael Nesmith

#becomes #collection #create #group #may

If we accept the notion that terrorists will have immunity because as they fire on civilians they hide behind civilians, then this tactic will be legitimized and the terrorists will have their greatest victory. ↗

— Benjamin Netanyahu

#because #behind #civilians #fire #greatest