Quotes About Experience

Statesmanship is developed in the hard knocks of general experience, private and public.

I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real sentences. But our innocence goes awfully deep, and our discreditable secret is that we don't know anything at all, and our horrid inner secret is that we don't care that we don't.

And I rose In rainy autumn And walked abroad in a shower of all my days...

Relax and give the play a chance to strut its stuff—relax, stop wondering what it's all 'about'—like many strange and familiar things, Life included, this Play isn't 'about,' it simply is. Don't try to enjoy it, let it try to enjoy you. Don't try to understand it, let it try to understand you.

We can never be born enough.

I am led to the proposition that there is no fiction or nonfiction as we commonly understand the distinction: there is only narrative.

Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader---not the fact it is raining, but the feeling of being rained upon.

Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader – not the fact that it is raining, but the feeling of being rained upon.

The historian will tell you what happened. The Novelist will tell you what it felt like. And the historical fiction writer does both!

Having words and explanations for things is too modern

It is fate that I am here,' George persisted, 'but you can call it Italy if it makes you less unhappy.

The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.

i will wade out till my thighs are steeped in burning flowers I will take the sun in my mouth and leap into the ripe air Alive with closed eyes to dash against darkness in the sleeping curves of my body

somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond

for whenever men are right they are not young

for every mile the feet go the heart goes nine

Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.

old age sticks up Keep Off signs)& youth yanks them down(old age cries No Tres)&(pas) youth laughs (sing old age scolds Forbid den Stop Must n't Don't &)youth goes right on gr owing old

Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit." —E. E. Cummings

Cummings had in mind creations of this sort when he said, 'The day of the spoken lyric is past. The poem which has at last taken its place does not sing itself; it builds itself, three-dimensionally, gradually, subtly, in the consciousness of the experiencer.

And so the ordinary unendurable torments we all experienced were indeed exceptional in the way they were absorbed in each heart.

The historian will tell you what happened. The novelist will tell you what it felt like.

I've had very little experience in my life. In fact, I try to avoid experience if I can. Most experience is bad.

Writing teachers invariably tell students, write about what you know. That's, of course, what you have to do, but on the other hand, how do you know what you know until you've written it? Writing is knowing... I've had very little experience in my life. In fact, I try to avoid experience if I can. Most experience is bad.