Andresen Quotes

#1. No identity is fully chosen by the individual, just as no identity is fully determined by forces external to the individual. This endless interplay between constraint and choice means that identities are necessarily dynamic, emergent, and contextual rather than static, predetermined, and immutable.

Julie Tetel Andresen

#2. Poetry is my understanding with the world, my intimacy with things, my participation in what is real, my engagement with voices and images. This is why a poem speaks not of ideal life but of actual life: the angle of a window; the reverberation of streets, cities, rooms; shadows along a wall.

Sophia De Mello Breyner Andresen

#3. Working to anticipate the future can be a distraction from the important task of dealing with the present.

Ed Seykota

#4. since humans are not famous for being strictly logical. These

Julie Tetel Andresen

#5. My father is a poet, my stepmother is a poet, and so I always had encouragement as a child to write.

Natasha Trethewey

#6. Artists who approach perfection do not have many ideas.

Odilon Redon

#7. We are in the damnation business!!!
And this, too, was a happiness. Of a sort.

Terry Pratchett

#8. I'm an entertainer. Not a journalist or spokesman for anybody. Truth is, a lot of my listeners absolutely hate what I have to say.

Neal Boortz

#9. Problems postponed have a habit of solving themselves

John Flanagan