"We have the words in our pockets, obscure directions. The old ones have taken away the light of their presence...."

-- Denise Levertov

#Taken Quotes #Light Quotes #Poetry Quotes

“Every man remembers his childhood as a kind of mythical age, just as every nation's childhood is its mythical age.”
“I tell you, Heaven is a real, literal, physical place, a city as material, as physical, as literal as Chicago or London or New York or Tokyo.”
“Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting.”
“Just breathing isn't living!”

Source : Eleanor Porter (2003). “Pollyanna”, ePenguin
“Why do Britons keep stabbing each other in August? Why do seaside hotels burn down in August? Why do children disappear in August, examinations get easier and Heathrow become the world's worst airport? The answer lies not in reality but in appearance. News editors abhor a vacuum. Half an hour of airtime and 10 pages of news must be filled each day, whatever the weather.”

Source : "The state has only aided our seasonal spates of thuggery" by Simon Jenkins, www.theguardian.com. August 21, 2007.
“Chance encounters are what keep us going.”
“I sit in one of the dives On Fifty-second Street Uncertain and afraid As the clever hopes expire Of a low dishonest decade”
“Labor, you know, is prayer.”

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