"When in public poetry should take off its clothes and wave to the nearest person in sight; it should be seen in the company of thieves and lovers rather than that of journalists and publishers."

-- Brian Patten

#Sight Quotes #Clothes Quotes #Poetry Quotes

“All of a sudden, you have this newborn you have no training for. It's frightening.”

Source : "Moynahan Feared Motherhood" by wenn.com, June 5, 2008.
“There are a lot of people with a lot of money, and I'm amazed they don't understand what a great pleasure it can be to give.”
“You might want to lie down," Magnus advised. "I find that it helps when the crushing sense of horrible realization sets in.”
“It [the Earth] was breathtakingly beautiful, like something out of a fairy tale. There is no way to describe the joy of seeing the Earth. It is blue, and more beautiful than any other planet.”
“I will be led and taught of the Holy Spirit. God desires full development, use and activity of our faculties. The Holy Spirit can and will guide me in direct proportion to the time and effort I will expend to know and do the will of God. I must read the Bible to know God's will. At every point I will obey and do I will die to self. I will begin to ask God to put me in a service of constant circumstances where to live Christ I must die to self. I will be alive unto God. That I may learn to love Him with my heart, mind, soul, and body.”
“I'm a theorist, not an institutionalist.”
“The age of a child is inversely correlated with the size of the animals it prefers.”

Source : desmond morris (1967). “tha naked ape”
“Far happier he, who, young and full of pride And radiant with the glory of the sun, Leaves earth before his singing time is done. All wounds of Time the graveyard flowers hide, His beauty lives, as fresh as when he died.”

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