"Take care of things close to home first. Straighten up your room before you save the world. Then save the world."

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Source : Ron Padgett (2013). “Collected Poems”, p.532, Coffee House Press

Ron Padgett

#Home Quotes #World Quotes #Care Quotes

“Country artists, I met a lot of them when I was five, six years old. I had an uncle who was a country and western singer and I met Lefty Frizzell when I was five or six years old in those shows that would come through Toronto from Nashville.”
“The summer of 2002 at the Wilson birthday party I met Van Dyke again and I made plans to have dinner with him.”
“Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage....”
“Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in this life.”
“In the eighteenth century it was often convenient to regard man as a clockwork automaton. In the nineteenth century, with Newtonian physics pretty well assimilated and a lot of work in thermodynamics going on, man was looked on as a heat engine, about 40 per cent efficient. Now in the twentieth century, with nuclear and subatomic physics a going thing, man had become something which absorbs X-rays, gamma rays and neutrons.”
“Certainly it does make the greatest possible difference what we think about God; the knowledge of God is the very basis of religion.”
“I could go to L.A. for limited amounts of time, but I like New York too much. I like seasons. I like fall.”
“The body is consuming energy when tense, and restoring energy when it is relaxed.”

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