"When it is winter and we must walk in the blizzard snow do not our fingers and toes whisper death Â And when winter is at last over. . .can we not hear our bellies whisper death to us Â In the dark don't we know Â And when we are paralyzed by nightmares Â We know what you are. Â With our first cries we rail against you. Â We see you in every drop of blood in every tear."

-- Martine Leavitt

#Dark Quotes #Winter Quotes #Blood Quotes

“When a gift is deserved, it is not a gift but a payment.”

Source : Gene Wolfe (1994). “Shadow & Claw: The First Half of 'The Book of the New Sun'”, p.90, Macmillan
“When Lawrence first found a gentian, a big single blue one, I remember feeling as if he had a strange communion with it, as if the gentian yielded up its blueness, its very essence, to him. Everything he met had the newness of a creation just that moment come into being.”

Source : Frieda Lawrence (2017). “Not I, But the Wind... by Frieda Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.31, Delphi Classics (Parts Edition) via PublishDrive
“Whenever you bring up women's internal workings, guys want to change the subject. Unless, of course, they're trying to change the laws.”
“The most potent weapon of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.”

Source : "White Racism and Black Consciousness" (paper presented at workshop sponsored by Abe Bailey Institute of Interracial Studies),Cape Town, South Africa, Jan. 1971
“What is worrisome about that is the U.S. standard of living. I think it is very difficult to envision our standard of living being preserved if we are in an economy where all people do is flip hamburgers, wait on people in stores, and sue each other. Itâ€™s not much of a basis for an economy.”
“I don't understand why some people will only accept a guitar if it has an instantly recognizable guitar sound. Finding ways to use the same guitar people have been using for 50 years to make sounds that no one has heard before is truly what gets me off.”

Source : FaceBook post by Jeff Beck from Jul 27, 2010
“Sometimes I feel like Iâ€™m actually on the wrong planet. Itâ€™s great when Iâ€™m in my garden, but the minute I go out the gate I think, â€˜What the hell am I doing here?”
“The disaster... is what escapes the very possibility of experienceâ€”it is the limit of writing. This must be repeated: the disaster de-scribes.”

Source : Maurice Blanchot (2015). “The Writing of the Disaster”, p.16, U of Nebraska Press

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