Source: The Akhmatova Journals, Volume I: 1938-1941
“I am very driven when it comes to poetry, a complete obsessive of the truth be told.”
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Irish poet, critic 1954–2012Related quotes
“I am an American. Photography is my passion. The search for truth my obsession”
From Adams to Stieglitz' (1990)
Source: 'Alfred Stieglitz' Photo notes, August 1946, p. 65
in his letter, 15 February 1889, (L. 911); as cited in Steven Z. Levine, Claude Monet (1994), Monet, Narcissus, and Self-Reflection: The Modernist Myth of the Self. p. 93
1870 - 1890
Interview with Jian Gomeshi, CBC Radio Q (16 February 2011) http://www.cbc.ca/video/#/Shows/QTV_on_bol...2/ID=1886977325/.
“I told the truth, I didn't come to fool you”
“This is how Hallaj said, I am God,
and told the truth!”
As quoted in Head and Heart : A Personal Exploration of Science and the Sacred (2002) by Victor Mansfield
Context: He says, "There’s nothing left of me.
I’m like a ruby held up to the sunrise.
Is it still a stone, or a world
made of redness? It has no resistance
to sunlight." This is how Hallaj said, I am God,
and told the truth!The ruby and the sunrise are one. Be courageous and discipline yourself.
Completely become hearing and ear, and wear this sun-ruby as an earring.