"This will be a good time for poetry, you know, when things get darker and stranger and your very speech is being questioned and the sense of trusting that human thing."

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Source : "New York's East Village Ushers In New Year With Feast Of Language". Interview with Tom Vitale, kccu.org. January 2, 2017.

Anne Waldman

#Speech Quotes #Good Times Quotes #Stranger Quotes

“I've enjoyed my retirement.”
“If you're never scared or embarrassed or hurt, it means you never take any chances.”
“Human attempts to construct moral order are always precarious: If righteousness too often leads to self-righteousness, the demand for justice can lead to one guillotine or another.”

Source : Susan Neiman (2009). “Moral Clarity: A Guide for Grown-Up Idealists”, p.430, Princeton University Press
“It is one of the ironies of this strange century that the most lasting results of the October revolution, whose object was the global overthrow of capitalism, was to save its antagonist, both in war and in peace - that is to say, by providing it with the incentive, fear, to reform itself after the Second World War, and, by establishing the popularity of economic planning, furnishing it with some of the procedures for its reform”
“I'm really fortunate because, in my career, I haven't had to deal with anybody trying to make me something I'm not.”
“Our forefather Adam... used his freedom to turn toward what was worse and to direct his desire away from what had been permitted to what was forbidden. It was in his power 'to be united to the Lord and become one spirit with God...' (I Cor. 6:15). But Adam was deceived and chose to cut himself off voluntarily from God's happy end for him, preferring by his own free choice to be drawn down to the earth (cf. Gen. 2:17) than to become God by grace.”
“Fitness will be a major factor in the first race and I think that will play into the hands of drivers who have been racing recently, rather than people like me who haven't raced properly for a decade. I'am not one of the favourites to start with.”
“If you can truly believe what you are pretending to do is really happening, then your audience will believe it, too.”

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