"We tend to put poems into factions. And it restricts our reading."

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Thom Gunn

#Reading Quotes #Factions Quotes

“Technology makes things faster and more cost-effective, but it's not perfect. It requires you to be as flexible as you can be.”
“I used to teach writing in a federal prison, and for my students' benefit, I would liken the narrative use of this highly personal point of view to a boxer's getting in close to his opponent.”
“If you try to make such projects, unseen by others, as perfect as any human could, you'll develop skills that other professionals don't have.”
“Yoga is a way to freedom. By its constant practice, we can free ourselves from fear, anguish and loneliness.”
“I'd like to get the sex thing over with, but I realized I'm not done with it.You should never will a change in your work-you have to work an idea to death. I often find that the best things happen when you're near the end.”

Source : "Lifting the Veil". The New Yorker Interview, www.newyorker.com. January 28, 2008.
“The principal task is to put spiritual foundations under both our child's life and our own. This triggers a shift in the elemental way in which we relate to our children, with the result that their behavior automatically falls in line as they become aware of, and true to, who they really are. Behavioral changes are an outgrowth of a shift in the relationship.”
“As children, we have a tenuous idea of love; we often try to quantify it with how much we feel seen and heard.”

Source : "Dear Parents: Leave Us Alone" by Adora Svitak, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 23, 2012.
“Okra is the closest thing to nylon I've ever eaten. It's like they bred cotton with a green bean. Okra, tastes like snot. The more you cook it, the more it turns into string.”

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