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I want to write a book of poetry, as well as childrens stories. -

I want to write a book of poetry, as well as childrens stories. – Bobby McFerrin

Other quotes by Bobby McFerrin

If I can bring joy into the world, if I can get people to stop thinking about their pain for a moment, or the fact the tomorrow morning theyre going to get up and tell their boss off… then Ill be successful. – Bobby McFerrin

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Morning
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Bobby McFerrin
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Well, I started conducting kind of by accident. I wanted to give myself a special birthday present for my fortieth birthday, and I was living in San Francisco at the time and I started attending some of the concerts and then simply dropping hints. – Bobby McFerrin

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Birthday
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I grew up in a time when being a musician and learning to be a musician was actually very wonderful. – Bobby McFerrin

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Learning
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Poetry
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Bleak House is just the most astounding piece of work. Theres huge, visionary poetry in it. – Simon Callow

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Poetry

I used to joke that if acting didnt work out, poetry was my commonsense fallback. – Merritt Wever

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Poetry

That sense of a life in natural objects, which in most poetry is but a rhetorical artifice, was, then, in Wordsworth the assertion of what was for him almost literal fact. – Walter Pater

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Poetry

Reading poetry gives me a sense of calm, well-being, and love for humanity – the same stuff more flexible women get from yoga. – J. Courtney Sullivan

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Poetry

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I live in company with a body, a silent companion, exacting and eternal. He it is who notes that individuality which is the seal of the weakness of our race. My soul has wings, but the brutal jailer is strict. – Eugene Delacroix

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We are all afraid for our confidence, for the future, for the world. That is the nature of the human imagination. Yet every man, every civilization, has gone forward because of its engagement with what it has set itself to do. – Jacob Bronowski

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To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely. – Jorge Luis Borges, Labyrinthes, 1962

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Consequences are unpitying. Our deeds carry their terrible consequences, quite apart from any fluctuations that went before—consequences that are hardly ever confined to ourselves. And it is best to fix our minds on that certainty, instead of considering what may be the elements of excuse for us. – George Eliot, Adam Bede

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