"By practice and conviction formed, With ancient stubbornness ingrained, Although her body clung and swarmed, My own identity remained."

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Source : Yvor Winters (1978). “The collected poems of Yvor Winters”, Swallow Pr

Yvor Winters

#Practice Quotes #Identity Quotes #Body Quotes

“The privilege of privilege is that the terms of privilege are rendered invisible. It is a luxury not to have to think about race, or class, or gender. Only those marginalized by some category understand how powerful that category is when deployed against them.”
“Any woman who marries an Italian must accept the undeniable fact that she has also married his mother.”
“As for the usefulness of poetry, its uses are many. It is the deification of reality. It should make our days holy to us. The poet should speak to all men, for a moment, of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten.”
“I knew of no instruction manual for reaching a higher level of humanity and a greater wisdom. But I felt intuitively that laughter was the beginning of wisdom, as is was indispensable for survival.”
“Women had a tendency to see what they wanted to see i men, at least in the beginning”
“You already have every characteristic necessary for success if you recognize, claim, develop and use them”
“When it's real world rules, it will not matter how big you are? When a bullet hits you in the head, you die. It all becomes about how much heart you have when you go into a world that is so scary, that assesses you and finds you either as an asset or full of crap.”
“Essentially, there's no scientific evidence whatsoever that could ever be presented to me that would wipe out my fundamental spiritual beliefs.”

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