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I wasn't reading poetry because my aim was to work my way through English Literature in Prose A-“Z.But this was diff

I wasn’t reading poetry because my aim was to work my way through English Literature in Prose A-“Z.But this was diff
– Jeanette Winterson

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  1. He needed some sort of membrane between himself and experience, which, for him, became language.(Jeanette Winterson on T.S.Eliot) – Jeanette Winterson
  2. Poetry isn’t an island, it is the bridge. Poetry isn’t a ship, it is the lifeboat. Poetry isn’t swimming. Poetry is water. – Kamand Kojouri
  3. Reading’s not a luxury, art’s not a luxury. It’s about your soul, and it’s about yourself. And if reading is a luxury, being human is a luxury – Jeanette Winterson
  4. The problem in this world is that we have poetry but insist on living in prose. – JM Campos
  5. Poetry is prose bewitched, a music made of visual thoughts, the sound of an idea. – Mina Loy
  6. Exercises are like prose, whereas yoga is the poetry of movements. – Amit Ray
  7. Prose fills a space, like a liquid poured in from the top, but poetry occupies it, arrays itself in formation, sets up camp and refuses to budge. – Simon Armitage
  8. Poetry creates the myth, the prose writer draws its portrait. – JeanPaul Sartre
  9. 3 P’s are my soulmates: Pain, Prose and Poetry. – Vinita Kinra
  10. She knew full well that writers were sex-crazed bohemians who broke the rules and didn’t go out to work. – Jeanette Winterson
  11. Yes, I am confusing literature with life. I’m declaring my own ordinary life to be a work of literature. – Tadeusz Konwicki
  12. Renounce poor work.Shun trivial work.Entertain respectable work.Welcome superior work.Honor transcendent work. – Matshona Dhliwayo
  13. The typical English painting is narrative in character. The English are a nation of diarists. – Neville Weston
  14. To this day, good English usually means the English wealthy and powerful people spoke a generation or two ago. – Jack Lynch
  15. Neither you nor I speak English, but there are some things that can be said only in English. – Aravind Adiga
  16. We’ve got to have rules and obey them. After all, we’re not savages. We’re English, and the English are best at everything. – William Golding
  17. Because he was English and that’s what the English do under stress: they drink tea. – Cynthia Hand
  18. The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark. – Michelangelo Buonarroti
  19. Aim for truth, and beauty will follow. Aim for beauty, and truth will not necessarily follow. – Chuck Wachtel
  20. Two qualities are at the root of all meditation development: right effort and right aim-”arousing effort to aim the mind toward the object. – Jack Kornfield
  21. If you aim upward, you will at shoot higher things (future prospects). If you aim downwards, you may shoot your feet (foundation). – Israelmore Ayivor
  22. Think outside the box; if possible, think as if there is no box. Aim high, above the ceilings; aim as if no ceiling can limit you. Dream big! – Israelmore Ayivor
  23. Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well. – Mahatma Gandhi
  24. A work of fiction should be, for its author, a journey into the unknown, and the prose should convey the difficulties of the journey. – Anthony Burgess
  25. I dreamed I was a single moment in a single day. A note struck and vanished. A sounding. A reckoning. Gone. – Jeanette Winterson
  26. I have sometimes sacrificed freedom in order to belong, but more often I have given up all hope of belonging. – Jeanette Winterson
  27. Children do not find fault with their parents until later. In the beginning, the love you get is the love that sets. – Jeanette Winterson
  28. the buddhists say there are 149 ways to god. i’m not looking for god, only for myself, and that is far more complicated. – Jeanette Winterson
  29. There will be a future. We believe in our unreality too strongly to give it up. – Jeanette Winterson
  30. Why is it that human beings are allowed to grow up without the necessary apparatus to make sound ethical decisions? – Jeanette Winterson
  31. Everyone who tells a story tells it differently, just to remind us that everybody sees it differently – Jeanette Winterson
  32. The words come at my call but who calls whom? – Jeanette Winterson
  33. You can’t be another person’s honesty, child, but you can be your own. – Jeanette Winterson
  34. Every journey conceals another journey within its lines: the path not taken and the forgotten angle. – Jeanette Winterson
  35. I can change the story. I am the story. – Jeanette Winterson
  36. Unconditional love is what a child should expect from a parent even though it rarely works out that way. – Jeanette Winterson
  37. We live as best we may in a world of worms. – Jeanette Winterson
  38. Well done, my fine fellow out of my womb. What have you gained? Nothing! And oh, what have you lost? Everything! – Jeanette Winterson
  39. The true nature of the world is energy not mass. – Jeanette Winterson
  40. I keep forgetting that if you live in a big city only mad people talk to themselves. – Jeanette Winterson

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