"Summer for prose and lemons, for nakedness and languor,"

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Source : Derek Walcott (1969). “In a green night: poems, 1948-1960”, Jonathan Cape

Derek Walcott

#Summer Quotes #Prose Quotes #Lemons Quotes

“Strive always to excel in virtue and truth.”
“On the analogy of 'Dictionary Johnson,' we call Fred R. Shapiro, editor of the just-published Yale Book of Quotations (well worth the $50 price), 'Quotationeer Shapiro.' . . . Shapiro does original research, earning his 1,067-page volume a place on the quotation shelf next to Bartlett's and Oxford's.”
“Reality bites. Micron underlines that despite the market run-up recently, there's still no confidence about growth and earnings.”

Source : "Techs sink European markets", www.cnn.com. December 18, 2002.
“Don't move. Just die over and over. Don't anticipate. Nothing can save you now because you have only this moment. Not even enlightenment will help you now because there are no other moments. With no future, be true to yourself and express yourself fully. Don't move.”
“The President's speech suggested to me that were we to follow his leadership, we will be in Iraq not for months, but for years. I also hope I am wrong on this.”
“To control the breathing is to control the mind. With different patterns of breathing, you can fall in love, you can hate someone, you can feel the whole spectrum of feelings just by changing your breathing.”
“They don't teach you just how to be in school. There's no class on that. There's no multiple choice test for Why Do I Feel This Way?”

Source : "Heather Matarazzo: ‘Welcome to the Dollhouse’ changed my life". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, pagesix.com. March 22, 2011.
“As the saying goes, type is a beautiful group of letters, not a group of beautiful letters.”

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