"Let tenderness pour from your eyes, the way sun gazes warmly on earth."

-- Hafez

#Eye Quotes #Earth Quotes #Way Quotes

“The dust is old upon my "sandal-shoon," And still I am a pilgrim; I have roved From wild America to Bosphor's waters, And worshipp'd at innumerable shrines Of beauty; and the painter's art, to me, And sculpture, speak as with a living tongue, And of dead kingdoms, I recall the soul, Sitting amid their ruins.”
“Later on, there were some problems with our navy, so he made me the head of the navy - all things that I hardly knew anything about. I was basically an ignorant young man.”
“For me, poetry has no point in existing if it's not to be a prompt or aid to political and ethical change.”

Source : "Vermin: A Notebook" by John Kinsella, www.poetryfoundation.org. December 1, 2009.
“Cops today are nothing but an armed tax collector”
“I just killed my best friend... and my worst enemy. What's the difference?”
“Slang is the speech of him who robs the literary garbage carts on their way to the dumps.”
“Awakened at midnight by the sound of the water jar cracking from the ice”
“Editing is kind of a solitary job.”

Source : "What You Can Get Away With: The Collegial Cutting Room Collaborators of Joe Dante, Part 1". Interview with Peter Tonguette, www.indiewire.com. January 13, 2012.

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