"The song of the umrhubhe creates a world of dreams."

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Source : Zakes Mda (2007). “The Heart of Redness: A Novel”, p.154, Macmillan

Zakes Mda

#Dream Quotes #Song Quotes #World Quotes

“The more serious poetry of the race has a philosophical structure of thought. It contains beliefs and conceptions in regard to the nature of man and the universe, God and the soul, fate and providence, suffering, evil and destiny. Great poetry always has, like the higher religion, a metaphysical content. It deals with the same august issues, experiences and conceptions as metaphysics or first philosophy.”

Source : Joseph Alexander Leighton (1919). “The field of philosophy: an outline of lectures on introduction to philosophy”
“I was filming a movie in London, and I drove through Ireland. It was quite beautiful, and the countryside was really remarkable. The contrast between the countryside and Ireland, and the murals there, with Northern Ireland still being a part of the United Kingdom, there's just a stark contrast in those two things. And I found that the art that came out of the conflict was really spectacular because it was about remembering either events or points of view for local neighborhoods, or the rallying cries of one side against the other.”
“... so many tremendous decisions in life are made because it is five o'clock.”
“Funny how people despise platitudes, when they are usually the truest thing going. A thing has to be pretty true before it gets to be a platitude....”
“A married woman, the safest place for any woman to be is at home with her husband.”
“It hurts to love wide open stretching the muscles... It hurts to thwart the reflexes of grab, of clutch; to love and let go again and again.”
“Whoever controls the image and information of the past determines what and how future generations will think; whoever controls the information and images of the present determines how those same people will view the past." "He who controls the past commands the future. He who commands the future conquers the past.”
“The reader wants to see something happen between pages one and four hundred, and nothing happens if the characters don't change.”

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