S.M. Stevens Quotes
in the presence of extraordinary actuality, consciousness takes the place of imagination.
The imagination is the liberty of the mind It is intrpeid and eager and the extreme of its achievement lies in abstraction.
They said, 'You have a blue guitar, / You do not play things as they are.' / The man replied, 'Things as they are / Are changed upon the blue guitar.'
It is necessary to any originality to have the courage to be an amateur.
In poetry, you must love the words, the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to love anything at all.
Be true to yourself and go with your instincts - don't be somebody you're not just to fit in.
I do listen to a lot of music. Actually, I very often ask directors if they can offer up a play list. They very often have one anyway that they're listening to.
It's the challenge of trying to evoke any kind of sympathy for a role that ordinarily we would say, "Oh, this is a bad guy" and dismiss him.
Nothing could be more inappropriate to American literature than its English source since the Americans are not British in sensibility.
Time is a horse that runs in the heart, a horse Without a rider on a road at night. The mind sits listening and hears it pass.
After the leaves have fallen, we return To a plain sense of things. It is as if We had come to an end of the imagination, Inanimate in an inert savoir.
I've never been a fan of directors who clutter a piece with all sorts of crazy preconceptions or weird ideas.
Two things of opposite natures seem to depend / One on another, as Logos depends / On Eros, day on night, the imagined On the real. / This is the origin of change.
Soap opera seems to be a dirty word, but actually they are the most popular shows we have.
I talk about my team a lot. I feel like people are the most important part of the puzzle.
Technology changing the world so quickly. I think it's even more difficult for older people to keep up in the world. And that's a challenge.
The great poems of heaven and hell have been written and the great poem of earth remains to be written.
Reality is not what it is. It consists of the many realities which it can be made into.
I know it sounds a bit corny, but I do think that beauty and sexiness come from within.
...after a night spent writing poetry, one is almost happy to hear the milkman at the door.
Complacencies of the peignoir, and late Coffee and oranges in a sunny chair. And the green freedom of a cockatoo Upon a rug mingle to dissipate The holy hush of ancient sacrifice
Requiring that an execution be relatively painless...actually undermines the very premise on which public approval of the retribution rationale is based.
To show a well-founded fear of persecution, an alien need not prove that it is more likely than not that he or she will be persecuted in his or her home country.
I had no idea that I could sustain a career as an artist. But, I loved music and wanted to be in the music business.
The night Makes everything grotesque. Is it because Night is the nature of man's interior world?
But I used to have a bit of a gambling problem. And that would have been the answer to my prayers. It got worse when I started playing this character, too.
And TV is not the easiest place to be dangerous or on the edge. Especially on a Saturday night.
In 1975 I decided that there was no future in flying (airline jobs were impossible to get, and who wants a job where you are judged only by seniority?) and headed off to grad school.
I drove across country in my yellow 1970 VW bug (which I drove until 1986) to Los Angeles, having had enough cold weather in 5 years in Ann Arbor, and found a job within a few days.
A technical survey that systematize, digest, and appraise the mid century state of psychology.
Your choice to believe and keep covenants will leave a rich legacy of faith for those who follow you.