#origin

I am not ridiculing verbal mechanisms, dreams, or repressions as origins of poetry; all three of them and more besides may have a great deal to do with it. ↗

— Allen Tate

#besides #deal #dreams #great #great deal

How are we suppose to thrive when everything we do in life is done to hinder us? We know more from the streets than from school. More from movies than books. The world is constantly trying to contain you, to make your life harder. You have to break free from this viscous current. Don't you see? Or you will be swept away into a sea of ordinary. ↗

— B.S. Wood

#difficulties #hope #inspirational #learning #motivational

Nick and Simon had come to a natural end of their working relationship with Warren, which obviously opened the door for a reunion of the original five. ↗

— Roger Andrew Taylor

#door #end #five #had #natural

Originality is simply a pair of fresh eyes. ↗

— Thomas W. Higginson

#fresh #originality #pair #simply

It seems difficult, sometimes, to believe that there was a time when sentiments now become habitual, sentiments that imply not only the original imperative of conduct, but the original metaphysic of living, were by no means altogether habitual. ↗

— Lascelles Abercrombie

#become #believe #conduct #difficult #habitual

Don't be a blueprint. Be an original. ↗

— Roy Acuff

#original

In Harvest of Stars, there is this notion, not original with me of course, that it will become possible to download at least the basic aspects of a human personality into a machine program. ↗

— Poul Anderson

#basic #become #course #download #harvest

I don't want to raise a child by myself. I could do it. But I definitely don't want to. I want to be a mother who has the original father there. ↗

— Christina Applegate

#could #definitely #father #i #mother

My background was in performing originally. ↗

— Cy Coleman

#originally #performing

I try to construct a picture in which shapes, spaces, colors, form a set of unique relationships, independent of any subject matter. At the same time I try to capture and translate the excitement and emotion aroused in me by the impact with the original idea. ↗

— Milton Avery

#aroused #capture #colors #construct #emotion