#read

I usually write for the individual reader -though I would like to have many such readers. There are some poets who write for people assembled in big rooms, so they can live through something collectively. I prefer my reader to take my poem and have a one-on-one relationship with it. ↗

— Wislawa Szymborska

#big #collectively #i #individual #like

Poets yearn, of course, to be published, read, and understood, but they do little, if anything, to set themselves above the common herd and the daily grind. ↗

— Wislawa Szymborska

#anything #common #course #daily #grind

Such sins, even if they do not kill all grace in us, do harm, nevertheless; and though they are only venial in themselves, they make us apt, ready, and inclined to lose grace and to fall into mortal sin. ↗

— Johannes Tauler

#even #fall #grace #harm #inclined

I'm not ready to do any compromises for my work. ↗

— Audrey Tautou

#compromises #i #ready #work

I'm not sure I'm quite ready to have someone be a prospector of jobs for me, because I believe there's some kind of destiny involved with meeting people... some things are just meant to happen. ↗

— Audrey Tautou

#believe #destiny #happen #i #i believe

Lenin was the first to discover that capitalism 'inevitably' caused war; and he discovered this only when the First World War was already being fought. Of course he was right. Since every great state was capitalist in 1914. ↗

— A. J. P. Taylor

#being #capitalism #capitalist #caused #course

I haven't read any of the autobiographies about me. ↗

— Elizabeth Taylor

#any #autobiographies #haven #i #me

People should watch out for three things: avoid a major addiction, don't get so deeply into debt that it controls your life, and don't start a family before you're ready to settle down. ↗

— James Taylor

#avoid #before #controls #debt #deeply

I don't read music. I don't write it. So I wander around on the guitar until something starts to present itself. ↗

— James Taylor

#guitar #i #itself #music #present

Photographers and reporters are mostly after me. They want to know what I read and what I'm like and I don't really know myself, so how can I tell them? ↗

— James Taylor

#how #i #know #like #me