"There are poems that are never written, that simply move across the mind like skywriting on a still day: slowly the first word drifts west, the last letters dissolve on the tongue, and what is left is the pure blue of insight, without cloud or comfort."

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Source : Linda Pastan (2009). “給要離家的女兒”, p.38, 書林出版有限公司

Linda Pastan

#Moving Quotes #Clouds Quotes #Blue Quotes

“I eat a little bit of everything and not a lot of anything. Everything in moderation. I know that's really hard for people to understand, but I grew up in an Italian family where we didn't overdo anything. We ate pasta, yes, but not a lot of it.”
“If you look at our theories of social pathology and then at the dismal conditions in which children grow up in our ghettos, you would predict that all of them would be on drugs or psychological basket cases. Yet if you use criteria like gainful employment, forming partnerships and life without crime, you will find that most of those kids make it.”
“If this were a [Hollywood] studio film, I wouldn't have pushed my father into a table, I would have beat him up. My father wouldn't have kissed my girlfriend; he would have raped her.”
“Future shock is the dizzying disorientation brought on by the premature arrival of the future.”
“I can't even begin to tell you how many casting couches I was attacked on. Not just by casting people, but by stars.”
“I have a strange need to paint; if I don't paint I cry and get bad headaches.”
“Taylor Swift is super charming. Damn you Swift.”
“There is a myth that the New Deal programs on their own pulled the US out of the Great Depression and created the conditions for the economic boom after World War II. As an economist, I can tell you, that is not true. In reality, it was mainly World War II that launched the boom - the massive war mobilization, the horrifying destruction and death caused by it, and then the reconstruction in its aftermath. he US was the only advanced capitalist country that was not bombed during the war.”

Source : Source: www.socialistalternative.org

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