"I'll lie here and learn How, over their ground, Trees make a long shadow And a light sound."

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Source : Louise Bogan (1941). “Poems and new poems”

Louise Bogan

#Lying Quotes #Light Quotes #Long Quotes

“The pursuit of perfection always implies a definite aristocracy, which is as much a goal of effort as a noble philosophy, an august civil polity or a great art.”

Source : RALPH ADAMS CRAM (1922). “TOWARDS THE GREAT PEACE”
“If you wanna be loved, baby, you've got to love me, too. Oh yeah, cause I an't for no one side love affair.”
“Want to be happy? Stop trying to be perfect.”
“I suppose not everyone has a dad who wrote a book saying he didn't believe in the Parliamentary road to socialism.”
“We're so bereft of support of theatre in this day and age.”
“Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.”
“The mass of workers, as yet non-Socialist, is retarded in its development towards Socialism.”
“Ive always loved the idea of mythologies linked to or underlying everyday life, like the kami gods of Shintoism, where every rock, tree and stream has its own little god associated with it.”

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