"You could be attached to merely a description of a plant or a flower. Or a narrative of an event. Or rage at injustice. Isaiah and the other Hebrew prophets, in their rage, were being altogether attached - not at all detached, although as I think of the word "detachment," I also think of a sheet of paper, loose from its notebook, fluttering around somewhere in the wind trying to find its home again."

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Source : Source: therumpus.net

Gerald Stern

#Notebook Quotes #Flower Quotes #Home Quotes

“Why does anyone do the things they do?”
“Exploration is wired into our brains. If we can see the horizon, we want to know what's beyond.”

Source : "Buzz Aldrin: What I've Learned" by Mike Sager, www.esquire.com. August 25, 2012.
“Terrorism and negotiations simply don't go together.”
“My dad didn't graduate from high school, ended up being a printing salesman, probably never made more than $8,000 a year. My mom sold real estate and did it part time.”
“It takes a whole lot of medicine for me to pretend I am somebody else.”
“It seems as though the goal of my work has always been to dissolve myself completely into the sensations of the surroundings in order to then integrate this into a coherent painterly form.”

Source : "Kirchner and the Berlin street" edited by Deborah Wye, Moma, New York, (p. 36), 2008.
“A gentleman is mindful no less of the freedom of others than of his own dignity.”
“Canada was my whole world and my whole reality, and now I meet people who've never been there, and it's like, 'You've never been to my whole world?'”

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