Voltaire said: "Which is more dangerous: fanaticism or atheism? Fanaticism is certainly a thousand times more deadly; for atheism inspires no bloody passion whereas fanaticism does; atheism is opposed to crime & fanaticism causes crimes to be committed."

What do you think?

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#creativequotes #philosophy #writers #horror #fantasy #belief

#Poetry can arise only from the consistent, urgent pull of the heart fearing for the land and feeling deeply for the people, the inability to turn away from the ache of compassion. No poem written merely in the writer's self-interest is worth being called such.

- #Dasan Jeong Yakyong, 18-19th century Korean thinker, writer, and poet #WritingQuote #CreativeQuotes

Words are my matter. I have chipped one stone
for thirty years and still it is not done,
that image of the thing I cannot see.

- #UrsulaKLeGuin, The Mind is Still (1977) #CreativeQuotes #WritingQuote #poetry

"A lesson in life that too few people actually learn is that there is nothing more freeing than allowing someone else their own freedom. There is nothing more powerful than allowing someone their own power."

- Joseph T. Mendoza-Green, Lines of Flight: Capitalism and Mental Illness

#CreativeQuotes #amReading

"Many of us find that we have squandered our own creative energies by investing disproportionately in the lives, hopes, dreams, and plans of others. Their lives have obscured and detoured our own. As we consolidate a core through our withdrawal process, we become more able to articulate our own boundaries, dreams, and authentic goals. Our personal flexibility increases while our malleability to the whims of others decreases. We experience a heightened sense of autonomy and possibility."

- Julia Cameron, The Artist's Way #CreativeQuotes

You mustn’t become just one story . . . I see you as a man who betrays and repents and loves and fears and dies. This is the only way if we’re not to ossify and die.

- Elias Khoury, Gate of the Sun (translated by Humphrey Davies) #CreativeQuotes

I heard a preacher say recently that hope is a revolutionary patience; let me add that so is being a writer. Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don’t give up.

- Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird #CreativeQuotes #WritingCommunity

The force that through the green fuse drives the flower
Drives my green age; that blasts the roots of trees
Is my destroyer.

- Dylan Thomas, The force that through the green fuse drives the flower #poetry #CreativeQuotes

"I want to get my best work out of me 'cause it’s still in me, and I feel it. And something in me can’t let it go yet. I long for that moment that I’m able to let that go and give it to the world.”

- #ErykahBadu on NPR's Wild Card https://www.npr.org/2024/11/14/1244131246/erykah-badu-on-the-piano-lesson-anxiety-and-making-new-music (transcript available) #CreativeQuotes #music #podcast