#tho

The job of the poet is to render the world - to see it and report it without loss, without perversion. No poet ever talks about feelings. Only sentimental people do. ↗

— Mark Van Doren

#ever #feelings #job #loss #only

My dad bought a Beatles tape when I was in fifth grade, and that was the first time I ever really - I mean I was into music, but that was the first time it really blew my mind. When I heard the 'Red Compilation,' which wasn't like a proper album, I thought, 'music was more than I had ever thought it was before.' ↗

— Andrew Dost

#beatles #before #blew #bought #compilation

For many years, I thought a poem was a whisper overheard, not an aria heard. ↗

— Rita Dove

#heard #i #many #overheard #poem

All of us have moments in our childhood where we come alive for the first time. And we go back to those moments and think, This is when I became myself. ↗

— Rita Dove

#back #became #childhood #come #first

Browning's tragedies are tragedies without villains. ↗

— Edward Dowden

#tragedies #villains #without

Sir Walter, with his 61 years of life, although he never wrote a novel until he was over 40, had, fortunately for the world, a longer working career than most of his brethren. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#brethren #career #fortunately #had #his

There must be a beginning of any great matter, but the continuing unto the end until it be thoroughly finished yields the true glory. ↗

— Francis Drake

#beginning #continuing #end #finished #glory

I sort of love reading the scripts and going, 'Oh wow, what a great idea. I never would have thought of that.' ↗

— Edie Falco

#great #great idea #i #idea #love

I believe in the compelling power of love. I do not understand it. I believe it to be the most fragrant blossom of all this thorny existence. ↗

— Theodore Dreiser

#believe #blossom #compelling #existence #fragrant

I'm happiest on set because I'm not myself. I'm someone else. The moustache, the dinner jacket. It's not me. You're always this sort of double, and it's liberating. Imagine being stuck with yourself... all those doubts. ↗

— Jean Dujardin

#because #being #dinner #double #doubts