"The philosophic mind inclines always to an elaborate life--the life of Goethe or of Leonardo da Vinci; but the life of the poet isintense--the life of Blake or of Dante--taking into its centre the life that surrounds it and flinging it abroad again amid planetary music."

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James Joyce

#Philosophical Quotes #Poetry Quotes #Mind Quotes

“And here goes Aguero, looking to relieve himself.”
“When you're home or you're working, your mind just isn't allowed to just roll on like it does when you're watching the scenery go by. You're hurdling through space but you're not really moving. ...It's that dreaminess, that ability to just get dreamy while you're looking out the window and you see something...and it makes you think of something else, and all of a sudden the words are just flowing out of you.”
“You never know what's going to happen with television these days.”
“Burning all the fossil fuels will destroy the planet we know, Creation, the planet of stable climate in which civilization developed.”
“In the godforsaken, obscene quicksand of life, there is a deafening alleluia rising from the souls of those who weep, and of those who weep with those who weep. If you watch, you will see The hand of God putting the stars back in their skies one by one.”

Source : Ann Weems (1999). “Psalms of Lament”, p.22, Westminster John Knox Press
“A soup so thick you could shake its hand and stroll with it before dinner.”

Source : John Burnside, Robert Crawford, Kathleen Jamie (1996). “John Burnside, Robert Crawford, Kathleen Jamie”
“Our approach was very simple. It was about creating a universal language. A show that will be attractive toward every people coming from all over the world. And that was a big thing.”
“Books are the beehives of thought; laconics, the honey taken from them.”

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