"Where can we find greater structural clarity than in the wooden buildings of the old. Where else can we find such unity of material, construction and form? Here the wisdom of whole generations is stored. What feelings for material and what power of expression there is in these buildings! What warmth and beauty they have! They seem to be echoes of old songs."

-- Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

#Song Quotes #Expression Quotes #Echoes Quotes

“Don't scrutinize people with a microscope; view them from a comfortable distance. And allow some room for compassion in the space the lies between you.”
“By and large, women in New Zealand are fortunate compared with some other countries, including many in our own region. But there is still progress to be made.”
“Change - even change meant to improve our lives - creates stress. We can get comfortable with our problems.”
“Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.”
“In an audience of rough people a generous sentiment always brings down the house. In the tumult of war both sides applaud a heroic deed.”
“The most important man in my life is and always will be Alain Delon. He is always there when I need a shoulder to cry on… even today Alain is the only man I can count on. He would always help me. Only Alain shaped me as a woman. Even though he hurt me a lot when he left me I also matured because of it.”
“We are, each of us, our own prisoner. We are locked up in our own story.”

Source : Maxine Kumin (1978). “The retrieval system: poems”, Viking Pr
“A Marine should be sworn to the patient endurance of hardships, like the ancient knights; and it is not the least of these necessary hardships to have to serve with sailors.”

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