L S May Quotes

I know when things are going to get me a little nervous, because nervous to me feels good.

My music is a mix of everything, mostly my own life. I just write about things that mean something and that I can write about. There's no point in pretending.

Though friendship is not quick to burn it is explosive stuff.

Now and then, in this workaday world, things do happen in the delightful storybook fashion, and what a comfort that is.

But buds will be roses, and kittens, cats - more's the pity.

Solitude is my element, and the reason is that extreme awareness of other people... precludes awareness of one's self so that after a while the self no longer knows that it exists.

When addressed, a Gentleman Cat does not move a muscle. He looks as if he hasn't heard.

I want to be great, or nothing. I won't be a commonplace dauber, so I don't intend to try any more.

Let us be elegant or die! --Amy

It is curious how any making of order makes one feel mentally ordered, ordered inside.

How much hope, expectation, and sheer hard work goes into the smallest success! There is no being sure of anything except that whatever has been created will change in time.

You may try your experiment for a week and see how you like it. I think by Saturday night you will find that all play and no work is as bad as all work and no play

As far as I can work out, no-one really loses out.

I am not about fringing, cow girl boots, that kind of Coachella vibe. I just wear something comfortable.

I have written every poem, every novel, for the same purpose-to find out what I think, to know where I stand.

Everyone in this world who has ever dreamed about better things has been laughed at.

Ecstasy is the accurate term for the intensity of consciousness that occurs in the creative act.

Competitive individualism militates against the experience of community, and that lack of community is a centrally important factor in contemporaneous anxiety.

Fame is a pearl many dive for and only a few bring up. Even when they do, it is not perfect, and they sigh for more, and lose better things in struggling for them.

Every act of genuine creativity means achieving a higher level of self-awareness and personal freedom.

[In old age] there is a childlike innocence, often, that has nothing to do with the childishness of senility. The moments become precious . . .

Work is and always has been my salvation and I thank the Lord for it.

even though the dead are beyond our touch, they remain fully dimensional, fully capable of affecting our decisions and quandaries.

The female population exceeds the male, you know, especially in New England, which accounts for the high state of culture we are in, perhaps.

The idea that Parliament somehow wasn't going to be able to discuss, debate, question issues around (Brexit) was frankly completely wrong.

It takes a long time for words to become thought.

The ultimate error is the refusal to look evil in the face.

Poems like to have a destination for their flight. They are homing pigeons.

If they had built the Energy East pipeline to transport beer, we'd be okay.

It is a waste of time to see people who have only a social surface to show. I will make every effort to find out the real person, but if I can't, then I am upset and cross. Time wasted is poison.

Courage is necessary to make being and becoming possible.

Freedom does not come automatically; it is achieved. And it is not gained in a single bound; it must be achieved each day.

My friends call me George, GM, or Georgia. But most people who know me from when I was little call me Georgia May.

My dad has more sparkly stuff than most men.

I am willing to consider powers which would ban known hooligans from rallies and marches and I will look into the powers the police already have to force the removal of face coverings and balaclavas.

…she'll go and fall in love, and there's an end of peace and fun, and cozy times together.

I like the fact that I have good old-fashioned British teeth with a big gap.

As a man seeing someone, have a decision: You can be correct or you can be glad.

To my mind Keep Yourself Alive was never really satisfactory. Never had that magic that it should have had.

I think all the stuff that happens before the pictures are taken is much more exciting.

Creativity is the encounter of the intensively conscious human being with his world.

No woman should give her happiness into the keeping of a man without fixed principles.

…what splendid dreams young people build upon a word, and how bitter is the pain when the bright bubbles burst.

Dan clung to her in speechless gratitude, feeling the blessedness of mother love, — that divine gift which comforts, purifies, and strengthens all who seek it.

…on some occasions, women, like dreams, go by contraries.

Beth ceased to fear him from that moment, and sat there talking to him as cozily as if she had known him all her life, for love casts out fear, and gratitude can conquer pride.

I think she is growing up, and so begins to dream dreams, and have hopes and fears and fidgets, without knowing why or being able to explain them.

It's lovely to see people so happy.

She preferred imaginary heroes to real ones, because when tired of them, the former could be shut up in the tin kitchen till called for, and the latter were less manageable.

Young people think they never can change, but they do in the most wonderful manner, and very few die of broken hearts.