#elf

The University conceives of itself as dedicated to the power of the intellect. Its commitment is to the way of reason. ↗

— Edward Levi

#conceives #dedicated #intellect #itself #power

Universities are the custodians not only of the many cultures of man, but of the rational process itself. ↗

— Edward Levi

#custodians #itself #man #many #only

The world began without man, and it will complete itself without him. ↗

— Claude Levi-Strauss

#complete #him #itself #man #will

I'm not an insecure person, per se, but I just never saw myself as the girl who walks into a place and everybody goes, 'Wow.' ↗

— Margarita Levieva

#girl #goes #i #insecure #insecure person

And so, little by little, I gradually divested myself of pretty nearly all of the guest conducting I used to do, because I was at the same time working in the places like the Met, where I could work in this sort of depth. ↗

— James Levine

#conducting #could #depth #divested #gradually

I don't want to be an actor, but why not take these opportunities when they come to you? I'm not killing myself auditioning, chasing that dream. ↗

— Adam Levine

#auditioning #chasing #come #dream #i

I have a high self-opinion - I don't need to hide that. I don't need to be self-deprecating. ↗

— Adam Levine

#high #i #need #self-deprecating

For sure I once thought of myself as the poet who would save the ordinary from oblivion. ↗

— Philip Levine

#myself #oblivion #once #ordinary #poet

My sense of a poem - my notion of how you revise - is: you get yourself into a state where what you are intensely conscious of is not why you wrote it or how you wrote it, but what you wrote. ↗

— Philip Levine

#get #how #intensely #into #notion

No one can write like Vallejo and not sound like a fraud. He's just too much himself and not you. ↗

— Philip Levine

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