"Poets are seen as the caretakers of language, so working with words no matter what the form is what we do."

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Yusef Komunyakaa

#Matter Quotes #Language Quotes #Poet Quotes

“Knowing that we can make a difference in this world is a great motivator. How can we know this and not be involved?”
“There are many satisfactions in public architecture but one of the greatest is the moment when you unveil a project and suddenly a group of adults”
“What can you give a friend who has everything? Shelves.”

Source : Patricia Marx (1985). “You Can Never Go Wrong by Lying: And Other Solutions to the Moral and Social Dilemmas of Our Time”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)
“A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.”

Source : Clifton Fadiman (1955). “Party of One: The Selectd Writings of Clifton Fadiman”
“Money is just a piece of paper. Money burns. You know what I mean? Money is nothing substantial to me. You know what I mean? It's the enemy of music.”
“Forgetfulness transforms every occurrence into a non-occurrence.”
“Am I nostalgic for film? … I mean, it’s had a good run, hasn’t it? You know, I’m not nostalgic for a technology. I’m nostalgic for the kind of films that used to be made that aren’t being made now.”
“In all great civilizations, garden discourses have belonged to larger discourses about beauty, the good life, the relation of humankind to nature, and so on.”

Source : Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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