"Let you hold in mind, girls, that your beauty must pass Like a lovely white clover that rusts with its grass. Keep your bottoms off barstools and marry you young Or be left--an old barrel with many a bung."

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Source : X. J. Kennedy (2007). “In a Prominent Bar in Secaucus: New and Selected Poems, 1955–2007”, p.12, JHU Press

X. J. Kennedy

#Girl Quotes #Carpe Diem Quotes #White Quotes

“In the place where I was a child, there were no artists and there was no art, so I really didn't know what that meant. I think I thought it meant that I would be in a situation different than the one that I was in.”
“I believe that you've created a metaphorical universe in which you can express your darkest fears. In one aspect, yes, I believe in ghosts, but we create them. We haunt ourselves, and sometimes we do such a good job, we lose track of reality.”
“Love is not a product of reasonings and statistics. It just comes-none knows whence-and cannot explain itself.”
“It takes fifteen pounds of wild fish to get you one pound of farm tuna. Not very sustainable. It doesn't taste very good either.”
“I didn't come out and pay a really painful price often, to be LGBT, to not claim my sexuality at the same time. It's not all right with me to not talk about it so I don't make anybody nervous.”

Source : Source: www.truth-out.org
“Who is fit to govern others? He who governs himself. You might as well have said: nobody.”

Source : Augustus William Hare (1827). “Guesses at Truth”
“Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.”
“I can watch anybody all day long if they're really doing what they're doing. I have a fascination with human behavior, watching people talk, when they pick at their face or how they hold their hand or if they're listening to you, if they're not listening to you.”

Source : Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 1, 2014.

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