Famous quotes containing the words sources, beliefs, world and/or view:
“The sources of poetry are in the spirit seeking completeness.”
—Muriel Rukeyser (19131980)
“To begin to use cultural forces for the good of our daughters we must first shake ourselves awake from the cultural trance we all live in. This is no small matter, to untangle our true beliefs from what we have been taught to believe about who and what girls and women are.”
—Jeanne Elium (20th century)
“Her green mind made the world around her green.”
—Wallace Stevens (18791955)
“Human life itself may be almost pure chaos, but the work of the artistthe only thing hes good foris to take these handfuls of confusion and disparate things, things that seem to be irreconcilable, and put them together in a frame to give them some kind of shape and meaning. Even if its only his view of a meaning. Thats what hes forto give his view of life.”
—Katherine Anne Porter (18901980)