“The poet who writes "free" verse is like Robinson Crusoe on his desert island: he must do all his cooking, laundry and darning for himself. In a few exceptional cases, this manly independence produces something original and impressive, but more often the result is squalor - dirty sheets on the unmade bed and empty bottles on the unswept floor.” WritingResultsCasesProducePoetBedEmptyOriginalsIndependenceCookingDesertDirtyIslandsBottlesVersesSheetsExceptionalImpressiveManlyLaundryFree VerseSqualorRobinson CrusoeEmpty BottlesUnmade Beds Author:W. H. Auden
“The Tao doesn't take sides; it gives birth to both good and evil. The Master doesn't take sides; she welcomes both saints and sinners. The Tao is like a bellows: it is empty yet infinitely capable. The more you use it, the more it produces; the more you talk of it, the less you understand. Hold on to the center.” GivingUseEvilSidesProduceMastersBirthCapableEmptySaintGood And EvilSinnerTaoTao ChingSaints And Sinners Author:Laozi
“I think about that "empty" space a lot. That emptiness is what allows for something to actually evolve in a natural way. I've had to learn that over the years - because one of the traps of being an artist is to always want to be creating, always wanting to produce.” ThinkingWayWantYearsArtistNaturalSpaceProduceCreatingEmptyEvolveEmptinessTrapsBeing An ArtistEmpty Space Author:Meredith Monk
“The tea is pure chemistry, and so is everything else. But chemistry can be highly active with nutrients, it could be not very active and empty of nutrients or it could be a toxic, polluted substance. That's what interests me as an environmentalist, because I think we should only produce the purest, finest things. Then there would be no toxic side effects. There would be no wastes, because everything would be used responsibly.” ThinkingShouldWould BeUsedSidesInterestEffectsProducePureWasteEmptyActiveTeaSubstanceChemistryToxicFinestEnvironmentalistSide EffectsNutrients Author:Horst Rechelbacher
“Bouillabaisse is only good because cooked by the French, who, if they cared to try, could produce an excellent and nutritious substitute out of cigar stumps and empty matchboxes.” IfsTryingCultureFoodProduceEmptyInternationalExcellentSubstitutesCigarStumpsMatchboxes Author:Norman Douglas