"Later our dreams begin catching fire around the edges, they burn like paper, we wake with our hands full of ash."

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Source : Naomi Shihab Nye (1995). “Words under the words: selected poems”, The Eighth Mountain Press

Naomi Shihab Nye

#Dream Quotes #Hands Quotes #Fire Quotes

“In every end, there is also a beginning.”
“What is necessary for the pubic realm is to shield it from the private interests which have intruded upon it in the most brutal and aggressive form.”
“Working is bad enough in the winter, but in the summer it can become completely intolerable. Stuck in airless offices, every fibre of our being seems to cry out for freedom. We're reminded of being stuck in double maths while the birds sing outside.”
“These two enormous forces â€” truth and meaning â€” are at war in today's world....And something sooner or later has to give.”
“Our economics are not baseball's economics. Our game is not baseball's game. Our owners are not baseball's owners, with one or two exceptions. Our union is not baseball's union. What we do has to be crafted and suited to address hockey, to address the NHL, to address our 30 teams and our 700-plus players.”
“The 'medical examination' to which abductees are said to be subjected, often accompanied by sadistic sexual manipulation, is reminiscient of the medieval tales of encounters with demons. It makes no sense in a sophisticated or technical framework: any intelligent being equipped with the scientific marvels that UFOs possess would be in a position to achieve any of these alleged scientific objectives in a shorter time and with fewer risks.”

Source : "Confrontations: A Scientist's Search for Alien Contact". Book by Jacques Vallee, 1990.
“She wore a wreath of roses, The night that first we met.”

Source : Thomas Haynes Bayly (1844). “Songs and Ballads, Grave and Gay”, p.131
“I always have trouble remembering three things: faces, names, and - I can't remember what the third thing is.”

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