Literally none of the songs on the Calpurnia EP were drawn from personal experience at all. I feel like now I really draw from personal experience and try to write how I feel. I didn’t really know how to do that at that point. I think I was too young to figure it out.
Point Of View Quotes
It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
Nothing’s beautiful from every point of view.
The importance of ‘nonsense’ can hardly be overstated. The more clearly we experience something as nonsense, the more clearly we are experiencing the boundaries of our own self-imposed cognitive structures. Nonsense is that which does not fit into the pre-arranged patterns we have superimposed on reality. Nonsense is nonsense only when we have not yet […]
I have ever since (his wife’s death) seemed to myself broken off from mankind; a kind of solitary wanderer in the wild of life, without any direction, or fixed point of view: a gloomy gazer on the world to which I have little relation.
Protest long enough that you are right, and you will be wrong.
Whatever has various respects, must have various appearances of good and evil, beauty or deformity; thus, the gardener tears up as a weed, the plant which the physician gathers as a medicine; and “a general,” says Sir Kenelm Digby, “will look with pleasure over a plain, as a fit place on which the fate of […]
It is easier to admire hard work if you don’t do it.
It all depends on how we look at things, and not on how they are themselves.
When the other fellow takes a long time, he’s slow. But when I take a long time, I’m thorough. When the other fellow doesn’t do it, he is lazy. But when I don’t do it, I’m too busy. When the other fellow does something without being told, He’s overstepped his bounds. But when I do […]
