"Why do comparisons of words and tone poems (poetry and music) never take into consideration that the word is a mere signifier, but that the sound, aside from being a signifier, is also an object?"

-- Franz Grillparzer

#Sound Quotes #Poetry And Music Quotes #Tone Quotes

“Mandela? He lasted 27 years in prison but he never could've done 30.”
“Most of the prisoners told the interpreter that they are from Mandingo.”
“You may very well ask what the goddess of love is doing in St. Andrews, writing trashy romances. Adapting.”
“the past is not only that which happened but also that which could have happened but did not.”

Source : Tess Gallagher (1986). “A concert of tenses: essays on poetry”, Univ of Michigan Pr
“I don't think so, I don't agree. The most unbearable thing I think by far, she said, is hope.”

Source : Aimee Bender (2011). “The Girl in the Flammable Skirt: Stories”, p.28, Anchor
“The foundation of authority is based upon the consent of the people.”
“African slavery is the corner-stone of the industrial, social, and political fabric of the South; and whatever wars against it, wars against her very existence. Strike down the institution of African slavery and you reduce the South to depopulation and barbarism.”
“Actors say they do their own stunts for the integrity of the film but I did them because they looked like a lot of fun.”

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