"Didn't you know that people hide love like a flower too precious to be picked?"

-- Emperor Wu of Han

#Love Quotes #Flower Quotes #People Quotes

“Barcelona is my life. They have brought me to where I am today. I could not leave, I don't want to leave. I know the Premier League is very good. But I cannot see myself playing in England because my heart is with Barcelona, always.”
“No, I've never played baseball in my life.”
“A symbol is indeed the only possible expression of some invisible essence, a transparent lamp about a spiritual flame; while allegory is one of many possible representations of an embodied thing, or familiar principle, and belongs to fancy and not to imagination: the one is a revelation, the other an amusement.”
“Gifts count for nothing; will alone is great; All things give way before it, soon or late.”
“It is easy to criticize, particularly in a political season. But to lead is something altogether different. The leader must live in the real world of the price that might be paid for the goal that has been set.”
“There's a whole language out there, and one's role as a writer is to stumble around in it.”

Source : "A life in poetry: Ciaran Carson". Interview With Aida Edemariam, www.theguardian.com. January 16, 2009.
“I want a theory to come out to guide policy.”
“How much do people really want to learn? I mean, some people get into a groove and they stay with it indefinitely. And what starts off as a great moment of explosive passion can end up as cabaret 25, 30 years later. It just depends on whether you go and find the right habitat to extend yourself.”

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