Valerie Worth famous quotes

One good way to start writing poetry is to read all kinds of poetry: not just in order to imitate but to fill up your head with it, to absorb it, to make poetry an essential part of how you view the world.
-- Valerie Worth

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Never forget that the subject is as important as your feeling; the mud puddle itself is as important as your pleasure in looking at it or splashing through it. Never let the mud puddle get lost in the poetry-because, in many ways, the mud puddle is the poetry.
-- Valerie Worth

#Feelings #Important #Mud Puddles

Never let the mud puddle get lost in the poetry because, in many ways, the mud puddle is the poetry.
-- Valerie Worth

#Mud #Puddles #Way

If the English language had been properly organized ... then there would be a word which meant both 'he' and 'she', and I could write, 'If John or Mary comes heesh will want to play tennis', which would save a lot of trouble.

Nature, not content with denying him the ability to think, has endowed him with the ability to write.

I can write better than anyone who can write faster,

In our view, successful reform is not an event. It is a sustainable process that will build on its own successes - a virtuous cycle of change.

I've always felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic.

Our common country is in great peril, demanding the loftiest views, and boldest action to bring it speedy relief.

Calvinism is an all-embracing system of principles... It is rooted in a form of religion which was peculiarly its own, and form that specific religious consciousness there was developed first a particular theology, then a special church-order, and then a given form for political and social life.

The search for safety takes its clearest form... in the compulsive-obsessive neurosis... to frantically order and stabilize the world so that no unmanageable, unexpected or unfamiliar dangers will ever appear.

A man's respect for law and order exists in precise relationship to the size of his paycheck.

In order to be artists we need to be in our studios, in our private rooms... in our private personal space... that sacred protected space, so we can make our work. That's the only work that's worth making, right? That's the place where we can be free enough and vulnerable enough to share what we have to share.