"The truth is dark under your eyelids."

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Source : Charles Simic (2013). “New and Selected Poems: 1962-2012”, p.216, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Charles Simic

#Truth Quotes #Dark Quotes #Truth Is Quotes

“Truth is beauty”
“Even as a partisan Republican, I'm not sure a 40-year run is healthy for either party.”

Source : Interview with PBS, www.pbs.org.
“No life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it for example by seeing it how it could be worse and then being grateful it isn't.”
“Thanks to the Internet, people we might have only suspected of being idiots can now give us ample evidence.”
“Core strengthening is key to everything. It's not just about the way I look, but about stabilizing my body so I can perform better on stage.”
“I'm very bad at having heroes. I don't rate anyone particularly highly because I'm so snide and competitive and not very nice.”
“When cyclones tear up Oklahoma and hurricanes swamp Alabama and wildfires scorch Texas, you come to us, the rest of the country, for billions of dollars to recover. And the damage that your polluters and deniers are doing doesn't just hit Oklahoma and Alabama and Texas. It hits Rhode Island with floods and storms.”

Source : "It Only Took Five Minutes for Democrats to Politicize the Oklahoma Tornado". "The Rush Limbaugh Show" with Rush Limbaugh, www.rushlimbaugh.com. May 21, 2013.
“If I had lady-spider legs, I would weave a sky where the stars lined up. Matresses would be tied down tight to their trucks, bodies would never crash through windshields. The moon would rise above the wine-dark sea and give babies only to maidens and musicians who had prayed long and hard. Lost girls wouldn't need compasses or maps. They would find gingerbread paths to lead them out of the forest and home again. They would never sleep in silver boxes with white velvet sheets, not until they were wrinkled-paper grandmas and ready for the trip.”

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