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W. D. Snodgrass

"Late April and you are three; today We dug your garden in the yard. To curb the damage of your play, Strange dogs at night and the moles tunneling, Four slender sticks of lath stand guard Uplifting their thin string. So you were the first to tramp it down. And after the earth was sifted close You brought your watering can to drown All earth and us. But these mixed seeds are pressed With light loam in their steadfast rows. Child, we've done our best."

Source : W. D. Snodgrass, “Heart's Needle”

W. D. Snodgrass

#Uplifting Quotes #Dog Quotes #Children Quotes

“So many able writers have shown that the unjust institutions which work so much misery and suffering to the masses have their root in governments, and owe their whole existence to the power derived from government we cannot help but believe that were every law, every title deed, every court, and every police officer or soldier abolished tomorrow with one sweep, we would be better off than now.”

Source : "The Principles of Anarchism". A Lecture by Lucy E. Parsons, lucyparsons.org.
“When I drank, I had a very different attitude towards my playing. It was sloppier but I kind of liked it that way. It was like the alcohol was telling my mind what to do.”
“I usually don't agree with what I say very much. I'm an awful liar.”
“To those who don't think defense is important, you'll get the best seat on the bench.”
“Photography is, for me, a spontaneous impulse coming from an ever attentive eye which captures the moment and its eternity.”
“I see that a man cannot give himself up to drinking without being miserable one half his days and mad the other.”
“There is so much more information about the scientific world than there was a generation ago that we have all increased our opportunities for ignorance. There are more things not to know. ... The machinery that we deal with is so much more complex that it is possible to become dysfunctional at a much higher level of performance.”

Source : Ellen Goodman (1990). “Making Sense”, Penguin Group USA
“About twenty pages into Luke B. Goebel'sÂ Fourteen Stories, None of Them Are Yours,Â I realized I was reading with one hand holding my forehead and one balled at my waist, kind of clenched, and gazing down into the paper like a man soon to be converged upon. Goebel's testimony comes on like that: engrossing, fanatical, full of private grief, and yet, at the same time, charismatic, tender, and intrepid, aglow with more spirit than most Americans have the right to wield.”

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