"I have lived to see that being seventeen is no protection against becoming seventy, but to know this needs the experience of a lifetime, for no imagination copes with it."

-- Lord Dunsany

#Imagination Quotes #Needs Quotes #Becoming Quotes

“The speed of light does not merely transform the world. It becomes the world. Globalization is the speed of light.”
“French is the most beautiful,â€ he said, â€œand Italian is the most poetic, and Russian the most powerful, German the most solid. But more business is done in English than in any other.”
“The only freak show I got is between my legs.”
“Intellectuals range through the finest gradations of kind and quality: from those who are merely educated neurotics, usually with strong hidden reactionary tendencies, through mediocrities of all kinds, to men of real brains and sensibility, more or less stiffened into various respectabilities or substitutes for respectability. The number of Ignorant Specialists is large. The number of hysterics and compulsives is also large.”

Source : Louise Bogan (2005). “A poet's prose: selected writings of Louise Bogan : with the uncollected poems”, Swallow Press
“To walk into Bill Olsen's poems is to enter a mind so weirdly curious, you can't be released to sadness, not yet: it's just too surprising.Â But this book-half microscope, half telescope-shadows grief, our shared and ordinary life where an old neighbor obsessively gathers twigs to wish back the tree, where the moon is regularly â€˜sawn in half,â€™ where sprinklers give off â€˜little wet speeches.â€™Â What else?Â It's brilliantly instead and odd.”
“The big deal is we think the power is in us individuallythe power is in us collectively. It is in the church.”
“If you ever have to ask someone else's opinion on a trade, you shouldn't be in it.”
“What makes bad writers so annoying is their good passages.”

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