"To me, poetry is somebody standing up, so to speak, and saying, with as little concealment as possible, what it is for him or her to be on earth at this moment"

-- Galway Kinnell

#Earth Quotes #Littles Quotes #Speak Quotes

“I made efforts to swallow tears and to protect the species of the Japanese nation.”
“The greatest dramas in the world are all about sex, violence and death.”
“I don't feel comfortable with luxury, and I try to stay fairly normal.”
“Onassis was a man who loved to walk, to walk and talk, and he was the kind of man who doesn't go to sleep at night-he talks and talks.”
“Since scarcity is the basic economic problem, if it does not exist then there is no reason for my economics course. Devoting time to the study of how people use limited resources to fulfill unlimited wants and needs should help us to discover how to best utilize the resources we have at our disposal.”
“You can't choose the ways in which you'll be tested.”

Source : Robert J. Sawyer (2009). “Calculating God”, p.85, Macmillan
“Pitch-black winter nights live in my bones.”
“From my mother's sleep I fell into the State, And I hunched in its belly till my wet fur froze. Six miles from earth, loosed from the dream of life, I woke to black flak and the nightmare fighters. When I died they washed me out of the turret with a hose.”

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