"Believe that a further shore...is reachable from here."

-- Seamus Heaney

#Believe Quotes #Shore Quotes

“You know," Elijah raised a hand to shake a finger at her, "you have an attitude problem." "I certainly do. Your attitude is a huge problem for me.”

Source : Jacquelyn Frank (2012). “Elijah: Number 3 in series”, p.44, Hachette UK
“Jacob wrote that the true poet 'is like a man who is happy anywhere, in endless measure, if he is allowed to look at leaves and grass, to see the sun rise and set. The false poet travels abroad in strange countries and hopes to be uplifted by the mountains of Switzerland, the sky and sea of Italy. He comes to them and is dissatisfied. He is not as happy as the man who stays at home and sees the apple trees flower in spring, and hears the small birds singing among the branches”
“You hang around actors, or dancers, the minute you sneeze, everybody has a remedy, and we're all on a million different kinds of diets, and different kinds of things that we do for exercise.”
“The spirit of science is not to prejudge, but to give any honest query a fair shake.”
“Any bailout of a private company is a bad decision by our federal government. Private companies have the right to succeed, but they also should have the right to fail.”
“A wife of your own stature is the greatest of all blessings.”
“Liberty is the luxury of self-discipline, that those nations historically who have failed to discipline themselves have had discipline imposed by others.”
“Black Poets should live--not leap From steel bridges, like the white boys do.”

Source : Etheridge Knight (1973). “Belly song and other poems”, Broadside Pr

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