"Every sensitive person carries in himself old cities enclosed by ancient walls"

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Source : Robert Walser (2013). “The Walk”, p.43, Profile Books

Robert Walser

#Wall Quotes #Cities Quotes #Ancient Quotes

“Blood trickled down his chin as he was hauled up onto his knees, the golden rope securing his arms behind him and his ankles together. Arthur looked up and saw the fizzing sparkling crown coming down. Iâ€™m Arthur Penhaligon, he thought desperately... The crown was wedged tightly upon his head- and Arthur fell silently screaming into darkness.”
“Behold the heart and mind of Angela Davis: open, relentless, and on time! She is as radiant, she is as true, as that invincible sunrise she means means means to advance With all of the faith and all of the grace of her entirely devoted life.”
“Evil is not intrinsic. It's fashioned.”
“In nature there are few sharp lines”

Source : A. R. Ammons (1968). “Selected poems”
“The main thing is to explain to yourself that everybody suffers.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“All I do and say and think 'as a poet' is much truer and more intimate than anything I say face to face.”
“Still round the corner there may wait, A new road or a secret gate.”
“Epistemology is the study of knowledge. By what conduit do we know what we know?”

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