"Scotland small? Our multiform, infinite Scotland SMALL?"

-- Hugh MacDiarmid

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“Courage, cheerfulness, and a desire to work depends mostly on good nutrition.”
“Where lowland is, that's where water goes. All medicine wants is pain to cure.”
“The most called-upon prerequisite of a friend is an accessible ear.”
“But the life that no longer trust another human being and no longer forms ties to the political community is not a human life any longer.”
“I just stopped reading a lot of books. I mean, I read books that I have to read for school, but I don't actually pick up a book and read for fun. On my time off, I go to movies, hang out with friends, go shopping...just little things.”
“I always wanted to go into film. I love film. I loved growing up in the theatre, but I always wanted to do film all along. But, I still pursue music separately.”
“There are worries that seem to me sustained by the love of worry. For example, that people are reading from screens, or listening to recorded books. Why scold the impulse to enjoy language and narrative in whatever form it takes?”
“In time of crisis, we summon up our strength. Then, if we are lucky, we are able to call every resource, every forgotten image that can leap to our quickening, every memory that can make us know our power. And this luck is more than it seems to be: it depends on the long preparation of the self to be used.”

Source : "The Life of Poetry". Book by Muriel Rukeyser. Introduction, 1949.

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