#try

I told you in the course of this paper that Shakespeare had a sister; but do not look for her in Sir Sidney Lee's life of the poet. She died young--alas, she never wrote a word. She lies buried where the omnibuses now stop, opposite the Elephant and Castle. Now my belief is that this poet who never wrote a word and was buried at the crossroads still lives. She lives in you and in me, and in many other women who are not here tonight, for they are washing up the dishes and putting the children to bed. But she lives; for great poets do not die; they are continuing presences; they need only the opportunity to walk among us in the flesh. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#dignity #dreams #empowerment #equality #feminism

In this country protection has always, to some extent, existed; but at some times it has been efficient, and at others not; and our tendency toward freedom or slavery has always been in the direct ratio of its efficiency or inefficiency. ↗

— Henry Charles Carey

#been #country #direct #efficiency #efficient

Innovation happens because there are people out there doing and trying a lot of different things. ↗

— Edward Felten

#different #different things #doing #happens #innovation

Even if there were no illegal copying, the advent of digital distribution will put a lot of stress on the movie and music industry. When the distribution costs comes down, that puts more price pressure on the rest of the cost. ↗

— Edward Felten

#comes #copying #cost #costs #digital

Never, never listen to anybody that try to discourage you. ↗

— Mariah Carey

#discourage #listen #never #try #you

I work myself into the ground. But I think I'm a nice friend and a good person, and I try to do my work as best I can. ↗

— Mariah Carey

#friend #good #good person #ground #i

Growth comes out of a healthy competitive atmosphere, not trying to choose a particular path forward. ↗

— Edward Felten

#choose #comes #competitive #forward #growth

If a serious statement is defined as one that may be made in terms of waking life, poetry will never rise to the level of seriousness. It lies beyond seriousness, on that more primitive and original level where the child, the animal, the savage, and the seer belong, in the region of dream, enchantment, ecstasy, laughter. To understand poetry we must be capable of donning the child's soul like a magic cloak and of forsaking man's wisdom for the child's. ↗

— Johan Huizinga

#poetry #wisdom #dreams

They are deceptively simple. I admit that. But for me, all my life I try to simplify things. As a child in school, things were very hard for me to understand often, and I developed a knack, I think. I developed a process to simplify things so I would understand them. ↗

— Eric Carle

#child #deceptively #developed #hard #i

The more people explore the world, the more they realize in every country there's a different aesthetic. Beauty really is in the eye of the beholder. ↗

— Helena Christensen

#beauty #beholder #country #different #every