What good is regret? It brings back nothing. What we have lost is irretrievable.
People are as healthy and confident as the stories they tell themselves.
The worst realities of our age are manufactured realities. It is therefore our task, as creative participants in the universe, to re dream our world. The fact of possessing imagination means that everything can be re dreamed. Each reality can have it
Creativity is the art of the impossible
I held you in the square And felt the evening Re-order itself around Your smile.
Magic becomes art when it has nothing to hide.
Reading, like writing, is a creative act. If readers only bring a narrow range of themselves to the book, then they'll only see their narrow range reflected in it.
It is a common fate -- a woman's lot -- To waste on one the riches of her soul, Who takes the wealth she gives him, but cannot Repay the interest, and much less the whole.
Deep in my heart subsides the infrequent word, And there dies slowly throbbing like a wounded bird.
I'm quite comfortable looking at myself in movies, probably because I've been doing it for so long, since I was a kid. So I sort of watched myself grow up and go through adolescence, like, basically on camera.
In modern times, what impresses one is not a simple and unassuming statement of the truth, but superficial showmanship and display.