Laurence Overmire Quotes

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• You can't really appreciate a work of art until you can understand how difficult it was to create. And that's probably true of any work…
• Expect nothing and accept everything and you will never be disappointed.
• War, hatred, and violence all spring from one infernal idea: that one person, race, creed, or culture is better than another.
• God made in the image of Man is an imperfect master.
• There is no nobler profession, nor no greater calling, than to be among those unheralded many who gave and give their lives to the preservation…
• History remembers only the celebrated, genealogy remembers them all.
• There is no such thing as an insignificant life, only the insignificance of mind that refuses to grasp the implications.
• Welcome to the figurative world of poetry where nothing is 'real,' but everything matters.
• I reserve the right to evolve. What I think and feel today is subject to revision tomorrow,
• Poetry is the art of using language to transcend language,
• Creativity is at the root of love and meaning in this life.
• There is no such thing as failure for an artist, unless failure is the refusal to attempt, the unwillingness to dream.
• Prose pretends to be straightforward in its application to the truth, but truth itself is a dissembler. Poetry, much more honest, knows the deception can't…
• Real life is never quite as interesting as the story told afterward.
• Those who refuse to look at or give expression to the dark side of life are in denial-fear preventing passage through the door of growth,…
• Life is inherently disturbing. That's why we've created the myths-to help us overcome, defend or deny, to transcend the grim reality of what here seems…
• If God spent 180 million years making dinosaurs, what makes us think Man is so special, a tick of the clock before midnight?
• Recognizing your own ignorance is the first step toward wisdom.
• When you look at a person who's different and see Yourself, then you begin to understand who and what God really is.
• Orwell couldn't see that Big Brother would not be The State, but The Corporation.

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