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Hip Quotes: Nathaniel Hawthorne
“Words – so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them. ”
– Nathaniel Hawthorne –
Category: poetrysongs
Hip Quotes: Catherine Drinker Bowen
“Writing, I think, is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living. The writer experiences everything twice. Once in reality and once in that mirror which waits always before or behind.”
– Catherine Drinker Bowen –
Category: poetrysongs
Hip Quotes: Truman Capote
“To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it’s about, but the inner music the words make.”
– Truman Capote –
Category: Music
Hip Quotes: John K. Hutchens
“A writer and nothing else: a man alone in a room with the English language, trying to get human feelings right.”
– John K. Hutchens –
Category: poetrysongs
Hip Quotes: Gene Fowler
“Writing is easy: All you do is sit staring at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead.”
– Gene Fowler –
Category: poetrysongs
Hip Quotes: Francis Bacon
“Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.”
– Francis Bacon –
Category: poetrysongs
Hip Quotes: E.B. White
Hip Quotes: Joan Baez
“It seems to me that those songs that have been any good, I have nothing much to do with the writing of them. The words have just crawled down my sleeve and come out on the page.”
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Hip Quotes: Denise Levertov
“Let me walk through the fields of papertouching with my wanddry stems and stuntedbutterflies….”
– Denise Levertov –
Category: poetrysongs
Hip Quotes: Blaise Pascal
“When we see a natural style we are quite amazed and delighted, because we expected to see an author and find a man. ”
– Blaise Pascal –
Category: poetrysongs