#u

My dream has come true, now that I have passed it on. ↗

— Mandy Patinkin

#dream #i #now #passed #true

Poetry is at the centre of my life, too, emotionally speaking, and intellectually speaking - it's just that I'm one of those people who enjoy doing other stuff as well. ↗

— Andrew Motion

#doing #emotionally #enjoy #i #intellectually

We begin the path toward defeating Mexico's real adversary, who represents authoritarianism and the worst antidemocratic practice, who represents a return to corruption as a system and impunity as conviction. That adversary is Pena Nieto and his party. ↗

— Josefina Vazquez Mota

#authoritarianism #begin #conviction #corruption #defeating

Vary the pace... is one of the foundations of all good acting. ↗

— Ellen Terry

#foundations #good #good acting #pace #vary

Walk on a rainbow trail; walk on a trail of song, and all about you will be beauty. There is a way out of every dark mist, over a rainbow trail. ↗

— Robert Motherwell

#beauty #dark #every #mist #out

It's not that the creative act and the critical act are simultaneous. It's more like you blurt something out and then analyze it. ↗

— Robert Motherwell

#analyze #blurt #creative #creative act #critical

Each sudden gust of light explains itself as flames, but neither they, nor even bombs redoubled on the hills tonight can quite include me in their fear. ↗

— Andrew Motion

#each #even #explains #fear #flames

I am a vigilant monarchist. I want to see things evolve. The direction the monarchy seems to be moving in - towards a more mainland-European model - is one I would feel sympathetic about. ↗

— Andrew Motion

#am #direction #evolve #feel #i

I get up at 5.30am, sluice myself and have two Weetabix and some mint tea, before starting to write by 6am. ↗

— Andrew Motion

#get #i #mint #myself #some

I like eating out. I like buying beautiful paintings and being surrounded by beautiful things. I have to finance that life. I can barely afford a pension scheme because I don't make enough money. ↗

— Andrew Motion

#barely #beautiful #beautiful paintings #beautiful things #because