"We know what boredom is: it is a dull Impatience or a fierce velleity, A champing wish, stalled by our lassitude, To make or do. In the strict sense, of course, We invent nothing, merely bearing witness To what each morning brings again to light"

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Source : Richard Wilbur (2006). “Collected Poems 1943-2004”, p.83, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Richard Wilbur

#Morning Quotes #Light Quotes #Boredom Quotes

“My daughter [Ariana], she's a sweet, lovely girl, but she doesn't have the drive or the belief in herself. As it says in the film, I get touched up thinking about it, no one can give you a career. You have to have that inner drive. She wants it, but she doesn't know how to go for it, she's too shy. To see her perform and come on stage and feel comfortable, you know, she has talent - that was very touching, very moving, for me. She has a really beautiful sound and voice. She's a young girl still, 26, and innocent. She was kind of sheltered.”
“Geoff Hurst had a hammer in his left boot and good left feet are like bricks of gold.”
“That wisdom which cannot teach me that God is love, shall ever pass for folly.”
“I dip my pen in the blackest ink, because I'm not afraid of falling into my inkpot.”
“The road to your soul is through your heart.”
“Being a champion and staying that way is the most difficult thing to deal with. Everyone sees you as a target. They want to bring you down. I should always train in order to be at a higher level. Other fighters are training hard as well. I have to be a step or more ahead.”
“Some kinds of nails, such as those used for defending the soles of coarse shoes, called hobnails, require a particular form of the head, which is made by the stroke of a die.”
“A promise made is a debt unpaid.”

Source : Songs of a Sourdough (1907) "Cremation of Sam McGee"

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