"To us, the ashes of our ancestors are sacred and their resting place is hallowed ground."

-- Chief Seattle

#Ashes Quotes #Sacred Quotes #Ancestor Quotes

“Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.”
“I describe it ( the new aesthetics) 'radically': I say aesthetics = human being. That is a radical formula. I set the idea of aesthetics directly in the context of human existence, and then I have the whole problem in the hand, them I have not a special problem, I have a "holography" (reacting on a former suggestion of the public as a slight joke, fh) I don't know exactly what a holography is.. (1973”
“I don't have an iPod.”
“I cannot persuade myself that without love to others, and without, as far as rests with me, peaceableness toward all, I can be called a worthy servant of Jesus Christ.”
“And me happiest when I compose poems: Love, power, the huzza of battle are something, are much: yet a poem includes them like a pool water and reflection.”

Source : Irving Layton (2012). “A Wild Peculiar Joy: The Selected Poems”, p.23, McClelland & Stewart
“Impermanence is the law of the universe.”

Source : Carlene Hatcher Polite (1987). “The flagellants”, Beacon Pr
“Death in itself is nothing; but we fear to be we know not what, we know not where.”
“It's okay to ask questions, but get the answers. So, where are the answers? Since the questions came from within you, guess where the answers are? Within you.”

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