Willis Polk Quotes

Every moment is, in some ways, eternal. Once you put something into the world, it stays there.

On great fields something stays.

The thinker dies, but his thoughts are beyond the reach of destruction. Men are mortal; but ideas are immortal.

Art is forever.

The game was here long before I was, and will be here long after I'm gone.

If your subjects are eternal... they'll survive.

The leaders come and go, but the people remain. Only the people are immortal

Fame comes and goes. Longevity is the thing to aim for.

The stuff that's good is the stuff that lives on.

We're just not going anywhere. Our songs are here to stay.

The great and good do no die even in this world. Embalmed in books, their spirits walk abroad. The book is a living voice. It is an intellect to which one still listens.

Use life to provide something that outlasts it.

You may make something you don't think is very important during your lifetime and it'll last for a thousand years.

Heroes get remembered, but legends never die.

Words have a longevity that I do not have.

All the buzz can be very much here today and gone tomorrow, but my focus is creating music that will last forever.

I don't want to be the next hottest thing, I want longevity.

Books are anchored. You return to books. You don't return to a tweet.

The idea of a piece of literature as a vessel that could contain your life and lived after you had died and been forgotten struck me as akin to artificial intelligence.

I want to be somebody, a person, first that people remember, but also, I want music that I release to still be around. I don't want it to just be cool for a second and be gone.

Ultimately, what I want is for my songs to outlive me: I want my songs to keep being played even after I'm gone.

The great men of earth are the shadow men, who, having lived and died, now live again and forever through their undying thoughts. Thus living, though their footfalls are heard no more, their voices are louder than the thunder, and unceasing as the flow of tides or air.

What is essential does not die but clarifies.

Books are men of higher stature, and the only men that speak aloud for future times to hear.

One only makes books in order to keep in touch with one's fellows after one has ceased to breath, and thus to defend oneself against the inexorable fate of all that lives - transitoriness and oblivion.