"Poem in other words may or may not result from inspiration but must (in reader and author alike) produce it--"

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Source : Franz Wright (2009). “God's Silence”, p.116, Knopf

Franz Wright

#Inspiration Quotes #May Quotes #Produce Quotes

“We develop our beautiful planet in such a way that we brush aside the species... we risk creating a wasteland, where our aspirations will ultimately wither and die”
“To be sexy means to have that special chemistry that arouses others, no matter what you look like. Energy and confidence play a big part, and great skin doesn't hurt.”

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“When the landscape buckles and jerks around, when a dust column of debris rises from the collapse of a block of buildings on bodies that could have been your own, when the staves of history fall awry and the barrel of time bursts apart, some turn to prayer, some to poetry: words in the memory, a stained book carried close to the body, the notebook scribbled by hand--a center of gravity.”
“Youth is a disease from which we all recover.”
“They say you should know your limits and work within them. But how can you really know your limits unless you try to expand them?”
“The regular hours necessary to be observed by those who follow country business, are perhaps of more consequence than any of the other articles, however important those may be.”
“Don't do anything stupd. And don't waste money. Let everybody else waste money and do stupid things; then we'll buy them.”
“Only one rational path is open to us - simultaneous de-development of the [overdeveloped countries] and semi-development of the underdeveloped countries (UDCs), in order to approach a decent and ecologically sustainable standard of living for all in between. By de-development we mean lower per-capita energy consumption, fewer gadgets, and the abolition of planned obsolescence.”

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