Quote by Glen Hansard
If you dont mark your successes, the day your ship comes in could

If you dont mark your successes, the day your ship comes in could be just another day at the office, and theres no poetry in that. – Glen Hansard

Other quotes by Glen Hansard

Our imagination just needs space. Its all it needs, that moment where you just sort of stare into the distance where your brain gets to sort of somehow rise up. – Glen Hansard

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Imagination
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The muse holds no appointments. You can never call on it. I dont understand people who get up at 9 oclock in the morning, put on the coffee and sit down to write. – Glen Hansard

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Morning
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Sadness is a very interesting idea, this idea of sadness being some kind of default setting that artists will go into. And then I started thinking about this idea of sadness and happiness, and the idea that sadness is very loud, and happiness is quiet. – Glen Hansard

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Happiness
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I think Im a very good reader of poetry, but obviously, like everybody, I have a set of criteria for reading poems, and Im not shy about presenting them, so if people ask for my critical response to a poem, I tell them what works and why, and what doesnt work and why. – Diane Wakoski

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Poetry

I cannot speak for more than an hour exclusively about poetry. At that point, life itself takes over again. – Wislawa Szymborska

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Poetry

Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind. – Don Marquis

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Poetry

In fact a lot of them I think are absolute baloney. Those Charles Olsens and people like that. At first I was interested in seeing what they were up to, what they were doing, why they were doing it. They never moved me in the way that one is moved by true poetry. – Norman MacCaig

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Poetry

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What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us. – Anon.

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When one is frightened of the truth then it is never the whole truth that one has an inkling of. – Ludwig Wittgenstein

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My mom always taught me to be sweet and polite and cross my legs because its what the guys like. Actually, they like a raunchy girl once in a while. – Tiffani Amber Thiessen

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Dictators and oppressors should continue to fear me because I will be here for a long time. – Lech Walesa

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