"Poetry is an ongoing conversation with the past and the future and the present. I'm interested in that continuity, in that way of tying civilization together. It's like shoe laces, it holds things together."

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Jonathan W. Galassi

#Past Quotes #Together Quotes #Poetry Is Quotes

“Infatuation cannot be sustained indefinitely, my friend. Love that embraces the entire person is a monumental gift that takes time to grow.”
“If we do overcome linear time, I would hope this means dwelling more directly in the fertility of the imagination rather than denying it, as some aspects of Buddhism seem to.”
“What we're really trying to tell, even though it's very much a genre show, is a very human story. Even in this heightened situation, it still comes down to people being people, and dealing with people as people. It really is about the seven people in that town.”
“A reasonable fine is such as the law will judge to be so . . . but what a reasonable fine is, and who shall be the judge of it, the law has established no rule.”
“Open your eyes at last and see...now I will open the book of the world for you,there are no words in it,just pictures”

Source : "Von der Natur der Gesichte-On the nature of visions", lecture - Vienna, 1912.
“Whatever arises from a just situation by just steps is itself just.”

Source : Robert Nozick (1974). “Anarchy, state, and utopia”
“I don't get upset with anyone after being hit in a game.”
“Discipline is doing what you hate to do, but nonetheless doing it like you love it.”

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