"Oh, the summer night, Has a smile of light, And she sits on a sapphire throne."

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Bryan Procter

#Summer Quotes #Night Quotes #Light Quotes

“Throwing young people on the scrap heap is a public health emergency.”
“I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow. I feel my fate in what I cannot fear. I learn by going where I have to go.”

Source : The Waking (1953) p. 120
“Terrorist', noun: 1. Someone my government tells me is a terrorist; 2. Someone my President decides to kill.”
“Happiness is the enemy.Â It weakens you, puts doubts in your mind.Â Suddenly, you have something to lose.”
“I didn't get into fighting for the money. I didn't want to be famous. I just want to fight.”
“She stood beside me for years, or was it a moment? I cannot remember. Maybe I loved her, maybe I didn't. There was a house, and then no house. There were trees, but none remain. When no one remembers, what is there? You, whose moments are gone, who drift like smoke in the afterlife, tell me something, tell me anything.”

Source : Mark Strand (2012). “Almost Invisible: Poems”, p.38, Knopf
“Moderate Islam ? That's a contradiction.”
“... my daughter McKenna thought I sang with the Everly Brothers ... I said, 'no I was one of the Righteous Brothers' and she said 'didn't they invent the airplane?'”

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