"Sometimes a word is found so right it trembles at the slightest explanation."

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Source : Rita Dove (1989). “The Yellow House on the Corner: Poems”, Carnegie-Mellon University Press

Rita Dove

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“I don't trust art that promises a 24-hour joyride. In fact, there seems to be a modern sense of entitlement for such constant "ups," which is a repugnant attitude any way one chooses to look at it. I definitely believe in the possibility of happiness, though; it's just something that I think, rightfully, is rare in its genuine form, and that it can't be counterfeited.”

Source : "Doing Good With Debby Ryan". Interview with Devin Alessio, www.seventeen.com. June 27, 2012.
“He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice.”
“A rune, hovering like an angel: a shape like two wings joined by a single bar.”
“New faces have more authority than accustomed ones.”
“there is a relationship between the mind and the body that can both create a physical condition and enable us to recover from it”
“If from one burning lamp someone lights another, then another from that one, and so on in succession, he has light continuously. In the same way, through the Apostles ordaining their successors, and these successors ordaining others, and so on, the grace of the Holy Spirit is handed down through all generations and enlightens all who obey their spiritual shepherds and teachers.”
“I'll say it one last time: Be brave.”
“I had some pretty lucky and good living situations; thankfully I never got forced out of an apartment. A lot of my friends got evicted or pushed out and couldn't afford a new place. For me, I wanted more space to set up a home studio, but there was no way to afford that.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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