#ten

The test of literature is, I suppose, whether we ourselves live more intensely for the reading of it. ↗

— Elizabeth Drew

#intensely #literature #live #more #ourselves

Poetry being the sign of that which all men desire, even though the desire be unconscious, intensity of life or completeness of experience, the universality of its appeal is a matter of course. ↗

— John Drinkwater

#being #completeness #course #desire #even

Any long work in which poetry is persistent, be it epic or drama or narrative, is really a succession of separate poetic experiences governed into a related whole by an energy distinct from that which evoked them. ↗

— John Drinkwater

#distinct #drama #energy #epic #experiences

This is freedom,’ said the instructress, ‘it’s something very wintry, and cannot be borne for long. One must always keep moving, as we are doing here, one must dance in freedom. It is cold and beautiful. Never fall in love with it. That would only make you sad afterwards, for one can only be in the realm of freedom for a moment, no longer. Look how the wonderful track we are floating on is slowly melting away. Now you can watch freedom dying, if you open your eyes… ↗

— Robert Walser

#robert-walser #beauty

There's a danger of the Internet just becoming loud, ugly and boring with a thousand voices screaming for attention. ↗

— Matt Drudge

#becoming #boring #danger #internet #just

All of science to me, everything that we have learned, is important to the extent that it brings us to our senses. ↗

— Ann Druyan

#everything #extent #important #learned #me

I started off playing the clarinet, after I was inspired by listening to my dad's Benny Goodman records. ↗

— Alvin Lee

#benny #clarinet #dad #goodman #i

Many legitimate forms of ownership, mainly cooperative and communal, had not been used to any effective extent mainly because of the imposition of Stalinist restrictions. ↗

— Alexander Dubcek

#because #been #communal #cooperative #effective

I don't believe in a conspiracy to hide the existence of extraterrestrial life. ↗

— David Duchovny

#conspiracy #existence #extraterrestrial #hide #i

If you have Darwin, Christ and Nietzsche, they're all going to talk at once. You need somebody who listens. ↗

— David Duchovny

#darwin #going #listens #need #nietzsche