Poetarum Quotes & Sayings

Knowing what to do is one thing. Knowing you're the one who's going to do it is something else entirely. — T. Rafael Cimino

To experience the northern forest in the raw, I went to northern Finland and Lapland, travelling on horseback, and sleeping on reindeer skins in the traditional open-fronted Finnish laavu. I ate elk heart, reindeer and lingonberries, and tried out spruce resin: the chewing gum of the Stone Age. — Michelle Paver

Whenever you take a subject you're obsessed with or that haunts you, and make a movie about it, you're converting it into work units that need to be completed. You gotta turn it into a treatment, a script, a grant application, a bunch of forms to be filled out, a shooting schedule, casting sessions, auditions, shooting, editing, music compositions, the film festival circuit, interviews even. And by the time you've finished the process you're so sick and tired by something that was once very precious to you that you're done with it. — Guy Maddin

Playing 'bop' is like playing Scrabble with all the vowels missing. — Duke Ellington

At times it seems we require more grace to lose our wealth than to lose our life! — Watchman Nee

Now when a man is as right as that in his forecasts, there is some reason to think he may be right in his premises. — Frank Sheed