“Imagism was a reductio ad absurdum of one or two tendencies of romanticism, such a beautifully and finally absurd one that it is hard to believe it existed as anything but a logical construction; and what imagist found it possible to go on writing imagist poetry? A number of poets have stopped writing entirely; others, like recurring decimals, repeat the novelties they commeced with, each time less valuably than before. And there are surrealist poetry, and political poetry, and all the othe refuges of the indigent.” WritingBelieveTwoHardPoliticalFoundNumbersPoetGoes OnAbsurdTendenciesRepeatsLogicalAdsConstructionRefugeNoveltyRomanticismHard To BelieveRecurringSurrealistDecimals Author:Randall Jarrell
“I've been in love and it doesn't last. And when it's over, it's hell for a while. And then one discovers that life goes on. Eventually, one falls in love again. This pattern repeats itself until one is too jaded to believe in it anymore, or too old for all the upheaval.” BelieveLastsFallHellGoes OnFalling In LovePatternsRepeatsOver ItLife Goes OnJadedBeen In LoveUpheavalLove AgainFalling In Love Again Author:Laura Lee
“Lessons will repeat to you in various forms until you have learned them. When you have learned them, you can then go on to the next lesson.” FormNextGoes OnLessonsVariousRepeats Book:If Life Is a Game, These Are the Rules: Ten Rules for Being Human as Introduced in Chicken Soup for the Soul Source: If Life Is a Game, These Are the Rules: Ten Rules for Being Human as Introduced in Chicken Soup for the Soul
“Sometimes I pick up the phone, listen to cold caller alias name, repeat it several times in an incredulous tone and then - bam! - pretend to recognise them. I ask them if they remember the hell of a time we had at the 1985 summer camp when we set fire to the wooden shed, and I keep making things up and go on and on until they end up terminating the call.” IfsEndsSometimesRememberAsksNamesHellFireGoes OnColdSummerPicksPhonesToneRepeatsCampsShedRecogniseSummer CampAliases Author:Sean O'Grady
“I think that's just what happens when you write a big bestseller. After that you need to find out: What's the best way to go on? And the worst thing you could do would be to try to repeat the formula. That would be suffocating.” ThinkingWayNeedsWritingTryingBigsHappensWould BeWorstGoes OnBest WayRepeatsFormulasWorst ThingsSuffocating Author:Daniel Kehlmann