"This is how it always is when I finish a poem. A great silence overcomes me and I wonder why I ever thought to use language."

-- Rumi

#Silence Quotes #Use Quotes #Overcoming Quotes

“You can swim in life and seawater, but both are hard to swallow.”
“I didn't hesitate to kiss my father in public. And that's how I tried to raise my children. We're physical.”
“In those sticky summer nights in South London our windows stay open and our tiny apartment becomes our secret garden. The magic of the secret garden is that it exists in our imagination. There are no limits, no borderlines. The secret garden leads to the marigolds of Mogadishu and the magnolias of Kingston and when the heat turns us sticky and sweet and unwilling to be claimed by defeat we own the night. We own our bodies. We own our lives.”
“The greatest rules of dramatic writing are conflict, conflict, conflict.”
“It is books that are a key to the wide world; if you can't do anything else, read all that you can.”

Source : Jane Hamilton (2014). “The Book of Ruth”, p.66, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“Violence is hidden within democratic structures because they are not radically democratic - Western democracy is merely a domestic convenience of consumerism.”
“I think some teams shied away because of it, ... But Minnesota stuck with me and I was happy about that.”
“We've seen in the last half century an incredible shift. This is just an extraordinary time to be alive.”

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