"I think that as poets, we can get away with stuff because we can ride on the melt of metaphor. We cover a lot of terrain psychically and temporally and linguistically via metaphor, and that can be a stand-in for an argument, whereas in prose, you have to make the argument, and you have to be convincing because the sequence must make sense in time and purpose."

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Source : Source: therumpus.net

David Biespiel

#Thinking Quotes #Purpose Quotes #Argument Quotes

“Woman throughout the ages has been mistress to the law, as man has been its master.”

Source : "Sisters in Crime: The Rise of the New Female Criminal". Book by Freda Adler, 1975.
“Every day when I get home from work, I feel so frustrated, my boss is a jerk.”
“The point to remember is that a giant leap into space can be a giant leap toward peace down below.”
“Speed is what distinguishes intelligence. No bird discovers how to fly: evolution used a trillion bird-years to 'discover' thatâ€“where merely hundreds of person-years sufficed.”
“In real everyday life, I don't walk around feeling fat and if on TV I'm considered fat, honestly, I kind of like it, because I'm a big advocate of positive unique representations of women in media. And so I like how I'm able to represent a curvier body and still be beautiful.”

Source : "‘You’re the Worst’ co-star Kether Donohue on the joys of being ‘TV fat’". Interview with Alan Sepinwall, uproxx.com. September 16, 2015.
“Countries around the world are celebrating new oil and natural gas discoveries that hold the promise of greater prosperity for their citizens.”
“Those old credulities, to Nature dear, Shall they no longer bloom upon the stock Of history?”
“When I am not king, then THE Kingdom has its best chance of breaking through.”

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