#itself

I always believed that whatever had to be written would somehow get itself written. ↗

— Seamus Heaney

#believed #get #had #i #i always

In fact, in lyric poetry, truthfulness becomes recognizable as a ring of truth within the medium itself. ↗

— Seamus Heaney

#fact #in fact #itself #lyric #medium

The fact of the matter is that the most unexpected and miraculous thing in my life was the arrival in it of poetry itself - as a vocation and an elevation almost. ↗

— Seamus Heaney

#arrival #elevation #fact #itself #life

The increasing importance of Sydney must in some measure be attributed to the flourishing condition of the colony itself, to the industry of its farmers, to the successful enterprise of its merchants, and to particular local causes. ↗

— Charles Sturt

#causes #colony #condition #enterprise #farmers

It's into the same bag as E.T. and Yoda, wherein you're trying to create something that people will actually believe, but it's not so much a symbol of the thing, but you're trying to do the thing itself. ↗

— Jim Henson

#bag #believe #create #into #itself

It's impossible for someone who is human to have all good things together, just as there is no single country able to provide all good things for itself. ↗

— Herodotus

#country #good #good things #human #impossible

Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than peace. ↗

— Herodotus

#concerted #effort #evil #greater #greater evil

You don't attack the grunts of Vietnam; you blame the theory behind the war. Nobody who fought in that war was at fault. It was the war itself that was at fault. It's the same thing with psychotherapy. ↗

— James Hillman

#behind #blame #fault #fought #grunts

Youth itself is a talent, a perishable talent. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#perishable #talent #youth

I never plot out my novels in terms of the tone of the book. Hopefully, once a story is begun it reveals itself. ↗

— Alice Hoffman

#book #hopefully #i #itself #never