"I wouldn't say that I've had a tough life by any stretch of the imagination."

-- Duncan Sheik

#Imagination Quotes #Tough Quotes #Tough Life Quotes

“She smiled for the first time, and he almost had to look away, as if something that nice didnâ€™t belong in such a glum and gray place, as if he had no right to look at her expression.”
“My older sister has entire kingdoms inside of her, and some of them are only accessible at certain seasons, in certain kinds of weather. One such melting occurs in summer rain, at midnight, during the vine-green breathing time right before sleep. You have to ask the right question, throw the right rope bridge, to get there-and then bolt across the chasm between you, before your bridge collapses.”
“I'm just writing songs about how I feel or about how people I know feel.”
“Carnal embrace is sexual congress, which is the insertion of the male genital organ into the female genital organ for purposes of procreation and pleasure. Fermatâ€™s last theorem, by contrast, asserts that when x, y and z are whole numbers each raised to power of n, the sum of the first two can never equal the third when n is greater than 2.”
“Life only works when Jesus is everything and we are fully submitted to Him.”
“All architecture is shelter, all great architecture is the design of space that contains, cuddles, exalts, or stimulates the persons in that space.”
“Happiness and suffering are states of mind, and so their main causes cannot be found outside the mind.”
“Flesh is heretic. My body is a witch. I am burning it.”

Source : Eavan Boland (2013). “New Selected Poems”, p.32, Carcanet

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