"Try to keep them, poet, those erotic visions of yours, however few of them there are that can be stilled. Put them, half-hidden, in your lines."

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Source : Constantine P. Cavafy, “When They Come Alive”

C.P. Cavafy

#Vision Quotes #Trying Quotes #Half Quotes

“Every nation at the end of the day must fend for itself. Sometimes, it needs help. And Ukraine deserves all the help in the world.”

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“Protecting biodiversity is just as important and critical to the survival of mankind as stabilizing the climate. Species protection and climate are interdependent.”

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“Wherever you go, in every country, on every continent, people yearn and hunger for one thing: to love and be loved.”
“Cal says that humans are made from the nuclear ash of dead stars. He says that when I die, I'll return to dust, glitter,rain. If thats true, I want to be buried right here under this tree. Its roots will reach into the soft mess of my body and suck me dry. I'll be re-formed as apple blossom. I'll drift down in the spring like confetti and cling to my family's shoes. They'll carry me in their pockets to help them sleep. What dreams will they have then?”
“The brutal reality about aging is that it has only an accelerator pedal. We have yet to discover whether a brake exists for people.”
“Please stop using the word "Negro."... We are the only human beings in the world with fifty-seven variety of complexions who are classed together as a single racial unit. Therefore, we are really truly colored people, and that is the only name in the English language which accurately describes us.”
“The corporation is the "master", the employee is the "servant". Because the corporation owns the means of production without which the employee could not make a living, the employee needs the corporation more than vice versa.”
“The surest sign that you haven't any sense is to argue with one who hasn't.”

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