#never

Backstage, I get sleepy, and want to curl up and snooze. I never get nervous, whatever the event. I feel quite detached until I walk on stage, and then some gear inside me clicks and off I go like a wind up doll. ↗

— Pete Townshend

#clicks #curl #detached #doll #event

Skepticism has never founded empires, established principals, or changed the world's heart. The great doers in history have always been people of faith. ↗

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

#been #changed #doers #empires #established

It is an endless procession of surprises. The expected rarely occurs and never in the expected manner. ↗

— Vernon A. Walters

#expected #manner #never #occurs #procession

It can never be satisfied, the mind, never. ↗

— Wallace Stevens

#never #satisfied

The genuine artist is never "true to life." He sees what is real, but not as we are normally aware of it. We do not go storming through life like actors in a play. Art is never real life. ↗

— Wallace Stevens

#artist #aware #genuine #go #life

Laws are never as effective as habits. ↗

— Adlai E. Stevenson

#habits #laws #never

The journey of a thousand leagues begins with a single step. So we must never neglect any work of peace within our reach, however small. ↗

— Adlai E. Stevenson

#begins #however #journey #leagues #must

I dislike literary jargon and never use it. Criticism has only one function and that is to help readers read and understand literature. It is not a science, it is an aid to art. ↗

— Anne Stevenson

#art #criticism #dislike #function #help

Sylvia Plath was just a month and a half older than I, and when she committed suicide I was only 30 - and very shocked and sorry. I never knew her personally. ↗

— Anne Stevenson

#half #her #i #just #knew

There is far too much literary criticism of the wrong kind. That is why I never could have survived as an academic. ↗

— Anne Stevenson

#could #criticism #far #i #kind