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We love the imperfect shapes in nature and in the works of art, look for an intentional error as a sign of the golden key and sincerity found in true mastery.


Dejan Stojanovic


#dejan-stojanovic #golden #golden-rule #imperfect #imperfection

Men and women who are lonely create. Those who are gregarious rarely do... Any poet would rather bed with a girl than write a poem about her. All art is the result of frustration. Art is energy deflected from its normal course in action.


Burton Rascoe


#creativity #poetry #art

There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society, where none intrudes, By the deep sea, and music in its roar: I love not man the less, but Nature more


George Gordon Byron


#poetry #solitude #love

It is always fatal to have music or poetry interrupted.


George Eliot


#poetry #music

If you must write prose or poems, the words you use should be your own. Don't plagiarize or take 'on loan'. There's always someone, somewhere, with a big nose, who knows, who'll trip you up and laugh when you fall.


Steven Morrissey


#poetry #music

I could do with a bit more excess. From now on I'm going to be immoderate--and volatile--I shall enjoy loud music and lurid poetry. I shall be rampant.


Joanne Harris


#music #poetry #rampant #volatile #music

Poetry, plays, novels, music, they are the cry of the human spirit trying to understand itself and make sense of our world.


Laura Malone Elliott


#novels #plays #poetry #reading #music

A poet's mission is to make words do more work than they normally do, to make them work on more than one level.


Jay-Z


#music #poetry #rap #music

Nature is an outcry, unpolished truth; the art—a euphemism—tamed wilderness.


Dejan Stojanovic


#dejan-stojanovic #euphemism #literature #literature-quotes #nature

The machines are too dull when we are lion-poems that move & breathe.


Michael McClure


#lion #machines #nature #poems #poetry






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