As I've explained to my wife many times, you have to kill your wife or mistress to get on the front page of the papers.
Ideas in secret die. They need light and air or they starve to death.
Instead of wondering when your next vacation is, maybe you should set up a life you don't need to escape from.
People who make a difference never wait for just the right time. They know that it will never arrive.
If we can fall in love with serving people, creating value, solving problems, building valuable connections and doing work that matters, it makes it far more likely we're going to do important work
There's a big difference between not settling and not starting.
You can listen to what people say, sure. But you will be far more effective if you listen to what people do.
I do feel that a poem needs not just space, but, ideally, space around that space - space for meditation, reverie, subliminal link-ups. I sense that poetry happens at a level above or below intelligence. It doesn't come into being at a purely rational level.
Spurious fame spreads from tongue to tongue like the fog of the early dawn before the sun rises.
Grammar is not a set of arbitrary rules; it is a compact between people who wish to understand each other.
When I was a junior, my school introduced badminton, which was clearly a P. E. department ploy to get me away from the wrestling room, and it worked, since the first time I played badminton was like the first time I tasted sushi or heard the Beatles or read Wordsworth. This was a sport? This counted for gym requirements?