"Everyone longs for love's tense joys and red delights."

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Source : Jane Kenyon (2005). “Collected Poems”, Graywolf Press

Jane Kenyon

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“My husband doesn't have to try to add to my comedy he just does being himself and saying & doing the things he does. We have a good friendship & I think couples can relate to our dynamic and sometimes out lack of dynamics too.”
“Don't forget the earth's about five thousand million years old, at least. Who can afford to live in the past?”

Source : Harold Pinter (2013). “The Homecoming”, p.58, Faber & Faber
“We need to do a better job of putting ourselves higher on our own 'to do' list.”
“If our vaunted rule of the people does not breed nobler men and women than monarchies have done it must and will inevitably give place to something better.”
“All men, and all created nature, have been at work, from the beginning of time to this day, to produce the circumstances which now influence our actions. AS soon as an act has been performed, it becomes independent of the individual performing it, and forthwith gives birth to some other act, which last gives birth to still another, and so they continue, and will continue, until the law of cause and effect shall cease to operate.”

Source : William Batchelder Greene (1843). “The Doctrine of Life: With Some of Its Theological Applications”, p.7
“I was really interested in meeting Peter Coyote.”
“The practical revolutionary will understand Goethe's 'conscience is the virtue of observers and not of agents of action'; in action, one does not always enjoy the luxury of a decision that is consistent both with one's individual conscience and the good of mankind.”
“We've known for years that the president of the United States is a cyberbully, a misogynist who has this thing about women and blood.”

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