"language can't be appropriated by one person, one poet. The words belong to all of us."

-- Erica Jong

#Language Quotes #Poet Quotes #Persons Quotes

“For it seems that long before the first enterprising man bent some twigs into a leaky roof, many animals were already accomplished builders.”

Source : 1964 Architecture without Architects.
“I would have had my patent long, long ago, and it would have run out long, long ago. I would have made, maybe, $100.000, much less that the patent has brought me now.”
“Why we are here: To tremble at the terrible beauty of the stars, to shed a tear at the perfection of Beethoven's symphonies, and to crack a cold one now and then.”
“There are no ambitions noble enough to justify breaking someone's heart.”
“You have to really dive deep back into yourself and get rid of so much modern analytical categorization. It's one of the great things poetry does.”
“Life means to have something definite to do-a mission to fulfill-and in the measure in which we avoid setting our life to something, we make it empty. Human life, by its very nature, has to be dedicated to something.”
“They say you are not you except in terms of relation to other people. If there weren't any other people there wouldn't be any you because what you do, which is what you are, only has meaning in relation to other people.”
“Closing the gap for women entrepreneurs should be a priority for the federal government - and yet the Small Business Administration has failed in their promise to women business owners.”

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