Cornelius Eady Quotes

#1. There is no merit to discipline under ideal circumstances. I must have it in the face of death or it is worthless.

Isaac Asimov

#2. Believe me, I don't take that lightly. To have struck gold twice with 'Rent' and 'Wicked.' I know it's rare and I'm very lucky to have that kind of phenomenon in my life. They're not just great shows, they're shows that resonate with young audiences.

Idina Menzel

#3. For me, the intent in a song is to sing it. I compose songs, meaning I'm writing words to be set to music; I'm intending it to not be recited. I'm a singer-songwriter, and I'm a poet, and there really isn't a contradiction, at least for me.

Cornelius Eady

#4. It is as painful perhaps to be awakened from a vision as to be born.

James Joyce

#5. Like most lit nerds, I'm a voracious reader. I never got enough poetry under my belt growing up but I do read it - some of my favorites, Gina Franco and Angela Shaw and Cornelius Eady and Kevin Young, remind me daily that unless the words sing and dance, what's the use of putting them down on paper.

Junot Diaz

#6. What I love about drafts is the experimental nature of them. The draft is what you know about writing a poem running up against what you don't know about the subject. If you're lucky, you get to surprise yourself.

Cornelius Eady

#7. Writing a lyric is writing a lyric, whether it's sung or recited. Perhaps the question to ask should be, has playing in a band for three years affected you? The answer to that is you bet.

Cornelius Eady

#8. I like university professors, but you know, we shouldn't hold them up as the high-water mark of all human achievement. They're just a form of life, another form of life.

Ken Robinson

#9. A king should know his people. That's why I sneak out,' he murmurs. 'I do it in the capital too, and at the war front. I like to see how things really are in the kingdom,instead of being told by advisers and diplomats. That's what a good king would do.

Victoria Aveyard

#10. A passionate commitment to social justice is no substitute for knowing what the hell you're talking about.

Thomas Sowell

#11. Ah the mad hearts of all of us.

Jack Kerouac

#12. Art is not supposed to repeat what you already know. It is supposed to ask questions.

Sarah Thornton

#13. Ignorance can be cured. Stupid is forever.

Miriam

#14. Poverty isn't being broke; poverty is never having enough.

Betty Jane Wylie

#15. I've always felt that poetry is the enemy of silence, but of course, in the right moments, silence can be useful. The trick is just trying to figure out when. And when I say silence, I suppose I actually meant erasure - poetry is a force against that, I think, or it should be.

Cornelius Eady

#16. Cynicism is a form of obedience.

Cornelius Eady

#17. Race, and the discussion of it brings out the bad, the good and the crazy in us.

Cornelius Eady

#18. When I leap, I briefly see the world as it is and as it should be.

Cornelius Eady

#19. Wisdom did not belong to mortals, and those whom others called wise were only those who, through grim experience, had touched the very edges of unwelcome truths. For the wise, even joy was tinged with sorrow.

Steven Erikson

#20. Disciplined governments do not engage in the economic equivalent of binge eating followed by crash dieting.

Peter Blair Henry

#21. Jericho's walls fell flat: Rahab's house was on the wall, and yet it stood unmoved; my nature is built into the wall of humanity, and yet when destruction smites the race, I shall be secure. My soul, tie the scarlet thread in the window afresh, and rest in peace.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#22. It's sometimes hard to know who's choosing whom - the poem, the song, or the writer.

Cornelius Eady

#23. It is only by expressing all that is inside that purer and purer streams come.

Brenda Ueland

#24. Education must assume full responsibility to enter the moral and spiritual lives of pupils.

Sai Baba