(Source: deadsolar, via sweetlikevenom)
"the moral was clear; that qualities like education or an ability to express oneself well did not follow simple paths, and that one could not therefore evaluate people on the basis of conspicuous categories. Simple images are nevertheless attractive in their lack of ambiguity. Similarly, there are people who are doubtful whether or not someone is intelligent, but who rapidly become convinced that they are once they see them fit the dominant image of an intelligent person, and learn of their formal education, factual knowledge and university degree."- How Proust can Change Your Life by Alain de Botton
"‘W.H. Auden said that we become poets not because we have important things so say but because we “like hanging around words listening to what they have to say.” True creativity stands aside so each word, each form, can emerge with its own energy. True creativity leaves the question of its origin unresolved.’"
