"poetry is the sung voice of accurate perception."

-- Patricia Hampl

#Voice Quotes #Poetry Quotes #Perception Quotes

“Erotic play discloses a nameless world which is revealed by the nocturnal language of lovers. Such language is not written down. It is whispered into the ear at night in a hoarse voice. At dawn it is forgotten.”
“Having been a journalist for thirty-nine years, I've developed a pretty thick skin.”

Source : "My Book Led To A Man’s Execution" by Pete Earley, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 17, 2012.
“It is futile to assume that an initially ineffective advertisement still needs to wear in; wear-in either happens quickly or it does not happen at all.”
“Here are some who like to run. They run for fun in the hot, hot sun.”
“I don't blame homosexuals for being angry when people say they've made a choice to be gay, because they don't.”

Source : "Larry King Live", transcripts.cnn.com. November 22, 2006.
“I always say that you are who you are and you can't hide it.”
“The ascendancy over men's minds of the ruins of the stupendous past, the past of history, legend and myth, at once factual and fantastic, stretching back and back into ages that can but be surmised, is half-mystical in basis. The intoxication, at once so heady and so devout, is not the romantic melancholy engendered by broken towers and mouldered stones; it is the soaring of the imagination into the high empyrean where huge episodes are tangled with myths and dreams; it is the stunning impact of world history on its amazed heirs.”

Source : Rose Macaulay (Dame.), Roloff Beny, Constance Babington Smith (1977). “Roloff Beny interprets in photographs Pleasure of ruins”
“He charged nothing for his preaching and it was worth it too.”

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