Broke Quotations | Page 6

Nothing good gets written without the writer suffering along the way, in my opinion. Writing should be a pleasure, but unless you feel almost broken many, many times in the journey to a novel, you haven't pushed yourself hard enough.

The one thing that we did today is that we broke their will,

The poem, to me (until I go broke) is an attempt, an experiment, a failing experiment, toward assertion with broken means but an assertion, always, of a new and total culture, the lifting of an environment to expression. Thus it is social, the poem is a social instrument.

Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.

Rather than being your thoughts and emotions, be the awareness behind them.

Do you really need to mentally label every sense perception and experience? Do you really need to have a reactive like/dislike relationship with life where you are in almost continuous conflict with situations and people? Or is that just a deep-seated mental habit that can be broken? Not by doing anything, but by allowing this moment to be as it is.

Every Indian outbreak that I have ever known has resulted from broken promises and broken treaties by the government.

Imagine what your life will look like when you have broken the bondage of fear.

But simply punishing the broken--walking away from them or hiding them from sight--only ensures that they remain broken and we do, too. There is no wholeness outside of our reciprocal humanity.

Why do we want to kill all the broken people?