“If poetry were nothing but texture, [Dylan] Thomas would be as good as any poet alive. The what of his poems is hardly essential to their success, and the best and most brilliantly written pieces usually say less than the worst.” IfsWould BePiecesAliveWrittenWorstPoetEssentialsDylanTexture Author:Randall Jarrell
“I don't worry about anything in the Internet age. I have been online since I was aware of it: 1985 in San Francisco. It has changed everything in my life. I would not want to even be alive in an era that did not have it because it is essential to our evolution as a species.” WantHas BeensAgeWorryAliveChangedEvolutionInternetEssentialsSpeciesErasOnlineSan Francisco Author:Augusten Burroughs
“As with most of my work, I started from the abstract, from research, building an intellectual model that slowly became internalized when the characters came alive. It's fascinating what happens to the model you've so assiduously assembled when characters are allowed to run rampant: things you thought essential are broken and other things are vastly improved.” CharacterHappensRunningAliveBuildingBrokenEssentialsIntellectualModelsResearchAbstractFascinating Author:Lauren Groff
“Being deeply aware of fragility and ecstasy seems to me an essential part of being alive and living fully - and there's no way for me to separate this from my poems.” WaySeemsAliveEssentialsEcstasyFragilityLiving Fully Author:Alex Lemon
“Ultimately, we have to ask ourselves an essential spiritual and ethical question: Are we the kind of people who take everything for ourselves and leave nothing for others, or do the angels of our better nature still live? I believe the angels are still alive.” PeopleBelieveKindStillsSpiritualAsksI BelieveAliveEssentialsAngelEthicalEthical Questions Author:James Balog
“Our right to disagree is precious but fragile. The best way to protect and preserve it is to let the other side speak without demonizing them or destroying their right to be heard. Such civil exchanges are the heart beat of democracy - essential to keeping it alive.” WayHeartSpeakSidesDemocracyAliveHeardProtectEssentialsBeatsBest WayPreservesDisagreeDestroyingFragileHeart Beat Author:Madeleine M. Kunin
“Goals are not only absolutely necessary to motivate us. They are essential to really keep us alive.” LifeInspirationalMotivationalGoalAliveEssentialsSettingSetting GoalsLife GoalDetermination MotivationalAquariumsGoals And LifeInspirational GoalInspirational Goal SettingMotivational GoalGood Goal Book:Move Ahead with Possibility Thinking Source: Move Ahead with Possibility Thinking
“The whole world is, to me, very much "alive" - all the little growing things, even the rocks. I can't look at a swell bit of grass and earth, for instance, without feeling the essential life - the things going on - within them. The same goes for a mountain, or a bit of the ocean, or a magnificent piece of old wood.” WorldLooksLittlesI CanWholeFeelingsEarthBitsPiecesAliveGrowingRocksMountainEssentialsOceanWoodsWhole WorldInstanceGrassMagnificentGrowing ThingsOld Wood Author:Ansel Adams
“The capital-T Truth is about life BEFORE death. It is about the real value of a real education, which has almost nothing to do with knowledge, and everything to do with simple awareness; awareness of what is so real and essential, so hidden in plain sight all around us, all the time, that we have to keep reminding ourselves over and over: "This is water." "This is water." It is unimaginably hard to do this, to stay conscious and alive in the adult world day in and day out.” WorldRealHardValuesWaterSimpleAliveAwarenessTruth IsEssentialsConsciousAdultsSightRemindingReal ValueBefore DeathReal EducationPlain Sight Author:David Foster Wallace
“Knowledge exists in two forms - lifeless, stored in books, and alive, in the consciousness of men. The second form of existence is after all the essential one; the first, indispensable as it may be, occupies only an inferior position.” MenFirstsMayTwoBookFormExistenceConsciousnessAlivePositionEssentialsInferiorsIndispensableLifeless Book:The Ultimate Quotable Einstein Source: The Ultimate Quotable Einstein