"I know my own nation best. That's why I despise it the most. And know and love my own people, too, the swine. I'm a patriot. A dangerous man."

-- Edward Abbey

#Men Quotes #People Quotes #And Love Quotes

“Break my heart for what breaks yours. Everything I am for you kingdom's cause, as I walk from nothing to eternity.”
“Art is beautiful but it is hard, like a religion without a purpose.”

Source : Günter Brus, Whitechapel Art Gallery (1980). “Günter Brus, Bild-Dichtungen: Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, 4 June-13 July 1980 ...”, Trustees of Whitechapel Art Gallery
“The test of interesting people is that subject matter doesn't matter.”
“I let people down easy with inspiration.”
“Rather than thinking to build, build to think.”
“A poem is an invocation, rebellious return to the blessedness of beginning again, wandering free in pure process of forgetting and finding.”

Source : Susan Howe (2007). “My Emily Dickinson”, p.98, New Directions Publishing
“Living on reserve we hunted; we fished; we trapped. We lived off the land. If we didn't hunt, we didn't eat. In summer, we hauled water from the slough. In winter, we hauled in snow to heat for water.”
“Ladies and Gentlemen...we are floating in Space!”

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