English Authors 11/20/23 English Authors 11/20/23 David Whyte: 'There are millions of people living Thoreau's life of quiet desperation, and they do not have the language to escape from that desperation.' Read More English Authors 11/20/23 English Authors 11/20/23 David Whyte: 'A good poem looks life straight in the face, unflinching, sincere, equal to revelation through loss or gain.' Read More English Authors 11/20/23 English Authors 11/20/23 David Whyte: 'The greatest luxury of having money should be not having to worry about it.' Read More English Authors 11/20/23 English Authors 11/20/23 David Whyte: 'A soul-based workplace asks things of me that I didn't even know I had. It's constantly telling me that I belong to something large in the world.' Read More English Authors 11/20/23 English Authors 11/20/23 David Whyte: 'There's a fierce practicality and empiricism which the whole imaginative, lyrical aspect of poetry comes from.' Read More English Authors 11/20/23 English Authors 11/20/23 David Whyte: 'Poetry carries the imagery which is large enough for the kind of life we want for ourselves.' Read More English Authors 11/20/23 English Authors 11/20/23 Peter Gabriel: 'Studios always seem to be in basements without natural light and with black everything.' Read More English Authors 11/20/23 English Authors 11/20/23 Peter Gabriel: 'I really wanted the first record to be different from what I'd done with Genesis, so we were trying to do things in different styles.' Read More English Authors 11/20/23 English Authors 11/20/23 David Bowie: 'I change my mind a lot. I usually don't agree with what I say very much. I'm an awful liar.' Read More English Authors 11/20/23 English Authors 11/20/23 David Bowie: 'Confront a corpse at least once. The absolute absence of life is the most disturbing and challenging confrontation you will ever have.' Read More English Authors 11/20/23 English Authors 11/20/23 David Bowie: 'I wanted to prove the sustaining power of music.' Read More English Authors 11/20/23 English Authors 11/20/23 David Bowie: 'I'm an early riser. I get up between five and six, have coffee, and read for a couple of hours before everyone else gets up.' Read More English Authors 11/20/23 English Authors 11/20/23 David Bowie: 'I don't see any boundaries between any of the art forms. I think they all inter-relate completely.' Read More English Authors 11/20/23 English Authors 11/20/23 David Bowie: 'What I like to do is try to make a difference with the work I do.' Read More English Authors 11/20/23 English Authors 11/20/23 David Bowie: 'I'm not one of those guys that has a great worldview. I kind of deal with terror and fear and isolation and abandonment.' Read More English Authors 11/20/23 English Authors 11/20/23 David Bowie: 'Age doesn't bother me. So many of my heroes were older guys. It's the lack of years left that weighs far heavier on me than the age that I am.' Read More English Authors 11/20/23 English Authors 11/20/23 David Bowie: 'I'm very good at what I do, and I don't turn my hand to something unless I'm very good at it, frankly.' Read More English Authors 11/20/23 English Authors 11/20/23 David Bowie: 'Sometimes you stumble across a few chords that put you in a reflective place.' Read More English Authors 11/20/23 English Authors 11/20/23 David Bowie: 'All my big mistakes are when I try to second-guess or please an audience. My work is always stronger when I get very selfish about it.' Read More English Authors 11/20/23 English Authors 11/20/23 David Bowie: 'I'm always amazed that people take what I say seriously. I don't even take what I am seriously.' Read More Newer Posts Older Posts
English Authors 11/20/23 English Authors 11/20/23 David Whyte: 'There are millions of people living Thoreau's life of quiet desperation, and they do not have the language to escape from that desperation.' Read More
English Authors 11/20/23 English Authors 11/20/23 David Whyte: 'A good poem looks life straight in the face, unflinching, sincere, equal to revelation through loss or gain.' Read More
English Authors 11/20/23 English Authors 11/20/23 David Whyte: 'The greatest luxury of having money should be not having to worry about it.' Read More
English Authors 11/20/23 English Authors 11/20/23 David Whyte: 'A soul-based workplace asks things of me that I didn't even know I had. It's constantly telling me that I belong to something large in the world.' Read More
English Authors 11/20/23 English Authors 11/20/23 David Whyte: 'There's a fierce practicality and empiricism which the whole imaginative, lyrical aspect of poetry comes from.' Read More
English Authors 11/20/23 English Authors 11/20/23 David Whyte: 'Poetry carries the imagery which is large enough for the kind of life we want for ourselves.' Read More
English Authors 11/20/23 English Authors 11/20/23 Peter Gabriel: 'Studios always seem to be in basements without natural light and with black everything.' Read More
English Authors 11/20/23 English Authors 11/20/23 Peter Gabriel: 'I really wanted the first record to be different from what I'd done with Genesis, so we were trying to do things in different styles.' Read More
English Authors 11/20/23 English Authors 11/20/23 David Bowie: 'I change my mind a lot. I usually don't agree with what I say very much. I'm an awful liar.' Read More
English Authors 11/20/23 English Authors 11/20/23 David Bowie: 'Confront a corpse at least once. The absolute absence of life is the most disturbing and challenging confrontation you will ever have.' Read More
English Authors 11/20/23 English Authors 11/20/23 David Bowie: 'I wanted to prove the sustaining power of music.' Read More
English Authors 11/20/23 English Authors 11/20/23 David Bowie: 'I'm an early riser. I get up between five and six, have coffee, and read for a couple of hours before everyone else gets up.' Read More
English Authors 11/20/23 English Authors 11/20/23 David Bowie: 'I don't see any boundaries between any of the art forms. I think they all inter-relate completely.' Read More
English Authors 11/20/23 English Authors 11/20/23 David Bowie: 'What I like to do is try to make a difference with the work I do.' Read More
English Authors 11/20/23 English Authors 11/20/23 David Bowie: 'I'm not one of those guys that has a great worldview. I kind of deal with terror and fear and isolation and abandonment.' Read More
English Authors 11/20/23 English Authors 11/20/23 David Bowie: 'Age doesn't bother me. So many of my heroes were older guys. It's the lack of years left that weighs far heavier on me than the age that I am.' Read More
English Authors 11/20/23 English Authors 11/20/23 David Bowie: 'I'm very good at what I do, and I don't turn my hand to something unless I'm very good at it, frankly.' Read More
English Authors 11/20/23 English Authors 11/20/23 David Bowie: 'Sometimes you stumble across a few chords that put you in a reflective place.' Read More
English Authors 11/20/23 English Authors 11/20/23 David Bowie: 'All my big mistakes are when I try to second-guess or please an audience. My work is always stronger when I get very selfish about it.' Read More
English Authors 11/20/23 English Authors 11/20/23 David Bowie: 'I'm always amazed that people take what I say seriously. I don't even take what I am seriously.' Read More