Salle Pleyel Quotes & Sayings

Poetry was a discipline grounded in experience that drew its life and worth from a source much greater than oneself, and as it realized its potential to touch others in their innermost being, what [Kathleen] Fraser has termed their "yearning side," it could be a profoundly communal act. Poetry, when it succeeded, did so in ways that were not quantifiable, and did not look much like worldly success, but that might be summed up as the joy on the face of a girl in a dingy classroom who finds a kindred spirit in a poem by Garcia Lorca. — Kathleen Norris

Make a technical contribution; innovate, don't emulate. — David Packer

George Harrison was the kind of guy who wasn't going to leave until he hugged you for five minutes and told you how much he loved you. — Tom Petty

I have no doubt there are magician psychopaths, and magician serial killers. I doubt Brakebills admissions is very good at screening for those. — Lev Grossman

All entertainment is education in some way, many times more effective than schools because of the appeal to the emotions rather than to the intellect. — Hortense Powdermaker

I am too old for an eyebrow piercing but too young for an eyebrow lift. — Max Cannon