"I love words; they are the quoits, the bows, the staves that furnish the gymnasium of the mind."

-- George Eliot

#Mind Quotes #Bows Quotes #Gymnasiums Quotes

“A work of art is a form that articulates forces, making them intelligible.”

Source : Guy Davenport (2015). “Every Force Evolves a Form: Twenty Essays”, p.5, Open Road Media
“Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.”
“Home is where your teapots are.”
“Leaf! you are so big! How can you change your color, then just fall! As if there were no such thing as integrity!”
“A key to my thinking has always been the almost fanatical belief that what I was engaged in was a literary art form. That belief was compounded out of ego and necessity, I guess, a combination of the two.”
“Real relationships - the kind that were supposed to last but never did - were more trouble than they were worth.”
“(Don) Sutton lost thirteen games in a row without winning a ballgame.”
“I remember distinctly telling my father-in-law, barring a miracle, we're going to have to terminate the pregnancy. Her health has to come first”

Source : "Faith, medical technology save a young mom" By Rhonda Rowland, www.cnn.com. May 10, 2002.

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