"A good poem looks life straight in the face, unflinching, sincere, equal to revelation through loss or gain."

-- David Whyte

#Loss Quotes #Looks Quotes #Gains Quotes

“When our children and grandchildren look back on this period, one question will overwhelm all the rest: Did we do everything in our power to fight and to win the war on terror? That's the fundamental question this generation faces.”
“Each time I go to a place I have not seen before I hope it will be as different as possible from the places I already know. Â I assume it is natural for a traveler to seek diversity, and that it is the human element that makes him most aware of difference. Â If people and their manner of living were alike everywhere, there would not be much point in moving from one place to another.”

Source : Paul Bowles (2016). “Their Heads Are Green And Their Hands Are Blue”, p.5, Pickle Partners Publishing
“A hideous ecstasy of fear and vindictiveness, a desire to kill, to torture, to smash faces in with a sledge hammer, seemed to flow through the whole group of people like an electric current, turning one even against one's will into a grimacing, screaming lunatic. And yet the rage that one felt was an abstract, undirected emotion which could be switched from one object to another like the flame of a blowlamp.”
“Spurn not the nobly born with love affected; nor treat with virtuous scorn the well connected.”
“The Journey of Reconciliation was organized not only to devise techniques for eliminating Jim Crow in travel, but also as a training ground for similar peaceful projects against discrimination in such major areas as employment and in the armed services.”
“Never will anyone who says his Rosary every day become a formal heretic or be led astray by the devil.”
“I went through a period when I was rebellious and a mess of a person.”

Source : "Austin Butler, ‘Carrie Diaries’ Star: ‘I Was Rebellious And A Mess Of A Person’" by Erin Clements, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 1, 2013.
“I've never met anyone who has convinced me to say, "No, I'm not gonna take the next Spielberg film, I think I'll stay here and have a baby." I've never met anyone of that caliber.”

Source : Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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