Wide Quotes

To be a poet is a condition rather than a profession.

I always try to make myself as widely understood as possible; and if I don’t succeed, I consider it my own fault.

Even if you’re only rowing down a stream, different things happen: maybe the wind changes, maybe the current, and suddenly everything’s different. So gently is really important.

When somebody recognizes me from the film – and it can be a wide range of people, which shows the power of film

It is widely held that too much wine will dull a man’s desire. Indeed it will…in a dull man.

Every time there are losses, there are choices to be made. You choose to live your losses as passages to anger, blame, hatred, depression and resentment, or you choose to let these losses be passages to something new, something wider, and deeper.

Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation. They deepen and widen and expand our sense of life: they feed the soul.

In this sleepless night, as the darkness advances, look up at the sky and somehow remember that somewhere in this wide world.

When you do these things, you sort of take the journey. The journey is all about how I can interweave the Oscar Wilde story.

A false conclusion once arrived at and widely accepted is not easily dislodged and the less it is understood the more tenaciously it is held.