"People who read poetry, for example, like the feel, the heft and the smell of a book."

-- Simon Armitage

#Book Quotes #Smell Quotes #People Quotes

“Turn off your brain and turn on your heart”
“You're 5 feet nothing, a hundred and nothing.”
“I have ever found it, when I have thought the battle was over and the conquest gained, and so let down my watch, the enemy has risen up and done me the greatest injury.”
“When I was young I was called a rugged individualist. When I was in my fifties I was considered eccentric. Here I am doing and saying the same things I did then and I'm labeled senile.”
“Poetry is the inner life of a culture, its nervous system, its deepest way of imagining the world. A culture that ignores its poets, chokes off its nervous system and becomes mortally ill.”
“The young show the genetic process, the old merely die of it.”

Source : Hortense Calisher (2013). “Standard Dreaming: A Novella”, p.48, Open Road Media
“I flew over all my masks from Sweden, including my first that I bought when I was 15. That was a little while ago so the masks looked a little different. I painted it myself, but actually the way it looks now is not the look it had when I played. I repainted it after I was done using it.”

Source : Source: wwd.com
“We carry our homes within us which enables us to fly.”

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