"Compose aloud: poetry is a sound. Never explain- your reader is as smart as you. Your reader is not just any reader, but is the rare one with ears in his head."

-- Basil Bunting

#Smart Quotes #Sound Quotes #Ears Quotes

“Don't say it was delightful; make us say delightful when we've read the description. You see, all those words (horrifying, wonderful, hideous, exquisite) are only like saying to your readers Please will you do the job for me.”
“Kartik places a sovereign in the lady's cup, and I know that it's likely all he has. "Why did you do that?" I ask. He kicks a rock on the ground, balancing it nimbly between his feet like a ball. "She needed it." Father says it isn't good to give money to beggers. They'll only spend it unwisely on drink or other pleasures. "She might buy ale with it." He shrugs. "Then she'll have ale. It isn't the pound that matters; it's the hope...I know what it's like to fight for things that others take for granted.”
“I do keep up at night. I try not to let my mind go to extremes in the middle of the night because it would be better to turn all that stuff into dreams; it would be better if I was sleeping, because dreams become good metaphors for what's really going on inside of you.”

Source : Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. November 18, 2009.
“We often hear that mathematics consists mainly of "proving theorems." Is a writer's job mainly that of "writing sentences?"”
“We have to immediately stop using the oceans as a dumping ground for our urban and industrial waste.”
“Hindus and Westerners alike see in the meat-eating taboos of India a triumph of morals over appetite. This is a dangerous misrepresentation of cultural processes. Hindu vegetarianism was a victory not of spirit over matter but of reproductive over productive forces.”

Source : Marvin Harris (2011). “Cannibals and Kings: Origins of Cultures”, p.229, Vintage
“If you see the world as beautiful, thrilling and mysterious, as I think I do, then you feel quite alive.”
“Nothing takes God by surprise. He knows the future and can therefore guide us through its trackless ways.”

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