"How loud clocks can tick when a room is empty, and one is alone!"

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Source : Amy Lowell, Melissa Bradshaw (2002). “Selected Poems of Amy Lowell”, p.52, Rutgers University Press

Amy Lowell

#Rooms Quotes #Emptiness Quotes #Tick Quotes

“You can always find contradictions and hope, in hopeless circumstances, and a sense of redemption in somebody who makes the same mistake, over and over. So far, so good. That's how I put it.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“Improvisation is the ability to talk to oneself.”
“Being yourself is one of the hardest thing because it's scary you always wonder whether you'll be accepted for who you really are.”

Source : Interview with Seventeen Magazine, www.seventeen.com. November 30, 2007.
“The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them.”
“What is necessary for the pubic realm is to shield it from the private interests which have intruded upon it in the most brutal and aggressive form.”
“The philosopher aspires to explain away all mysteries, to dissolve them into light. Mystery, on the other hand, is demanded and pursued by the religious instinct; mystery constitutes the essence of worship.”
“The only important thing to realise about history is that it all took place in the last five minutes.”

Source : Celia Elizabeth Green (1976). “The decline and fall of science”, Hamish Hamilton
“Writing begins in the body, it is the music of the body, and even if the words have meaning, can sometimes have meaning, the music of the words is where the meanings begin....Writing as a lesser form of dance.”

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