"Though I have looked everywhere / I can find nothing lowly / in the universe."

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Source : A. R. Ammons (1963). “Expressions of sea level”

A. R. Ammons

#Universe Quotes

“What makes me happy about the show, and what I hope people take away from it is: "Just be yourself." I know that's supremely corny, but I really think that just being honest with yourself and being honest with everyone around you is the best way to live.”
“Beauties are always curious about beauties, and wits about wits.”
“A lawn is nature under totalitarian rule.”
“Modern research divides nature into tiny pieces and conducts tests that conform neither with natural law nor with practical experience. The results are arranged for the convenience of research, not according to the needs of the farmer.”
“Photography is the easiest art, which perhaps makes it the hardest.”
“You make beauty and it disappears, I love that.”

Source : Caryl Churchill (2008). “Plays Four”, Nick Hern Books
“My painting is visible images which conceal nothing... they evoke mystery and indeed when one sees one of my pictures, one asks oneself this simple question 'What does that mean'? It does not mean anything, because mystery means nothing either, it is unknowable.”
“Anarchism is a definite intellectual current in the life of our times, whose adherents advocate the abolition of economic monopolies and of all political and social coercive institutions within society. In place of the present capitalistic economic order Anarchists would have a free association of all productive forces based upon co-operative labour, which would have as its sole purpose the satisfying of the necessary requirements of every member of society, and would no longer have in view the special interest of privileged minorities within the social union.”

Source : Rudolf Rocker (2004). “Anarcho-Syndicalism: Theory and Practice”, p.1, AK Press

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