Starkaor Quotes & Sayings

Abstract reason, formerly the servant of practical human reasons, has everywhere become its master, and denies poetry any excuse for existence.
Though philosophers like to define poetry as irrational fancy, for us it is practical, humorous, reasonable way of being ourselves. Of never acquiescing in a fraud; of never accepting the secondary-rate in poetry, painting, music, love, friends. Of safeguarding our poetic institutions against the encroachments of mechanized, insensate, inhumane, abstract rationality. — Robert Graves

I got in touch with the creative process between the age of 14 and 16, mainly because I was alone so much. — Chris Cornell

A black face, run-down shoes and elbow-out make-up give me a place to hide. The real Bert Williams is crouched deep down inside the coon who sings the songs and tells the stories. — Bert Williams

You cannot make your opportunities concur with the opportunities of people whose incomes are ten times greater than yours. — Steve Martin

A bad rendition of you is better than a good rendition of somebody else. — Willie Dixon

Watch out for life ... It's harder than it looks. — Cynthia Kadohata