"Much of the magical effect that poetry gives of rendering everything it touches pellucid comes from the necessity of compression that it imposes. The impossibility of pausing in poetry as long as may be needed to make sense clear causes many a set of words actually deficient in linguistic workmanship to pass for an eloquent brevity."

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Source : "The Promise of Words". London Review of Books, Vol. 17, No. 17, p. 23, September 07, 1995.

Laura Riding

#Long Quotes #Giving Quotes #May Quotes

“I've changed since I've known you. Not because you made me into someone else - but because you showed me a path I'd never paid attention to, and I chose to follow it.”
“First Lady Michelle Obama has posted an exercise video of her beating up a punching bag. But don't worry, Vice President Biden is going to be OK.”
“The noncook is in a helpless position, much like that of the car owner who canâ€™t change a tire and has to depend on mechanics to keep his automobile running.”
“You'll be riding along in an automobile. You'll be the driver perhaps. You're a Christian. There'll be several people in the automobile with you, maybe someone who is not a Christian. When the trumpet sounds you and the other born-again believers in that automobile will be instantly caught away - you will disappear, leaving behind only your clothes and physical things that cannot inherit eternal life. That unsaved person or persons in the automobile will suddenly be startled to find the car suddenly somewhere crashes....”
“One of the reasons I don't have kids is because I think people would have been very unfair to them. Think of it. You're still asking me questions about The Exorcist.”
“The true and solid peace of nations consists not in equality of arms, but in mutual trust alone.”
“It's very important to be just to other people. It takes years and years of living to learn that injustice against oneself is always unimportant.”
“I did this night promise my wife never to go to bed without calling upon God, upon my knees, in prayer.”

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