"Only truthful hands write true poems. I cannot see any basic difference between a handshake and a poem."

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Source : Paul Celan, Rosemarie Waldrop (2003). “Collected Prose”, p.26, Psychology Press

Paul Celan

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“I always think before an important shot: What is the worst that can happen on this shot? I can whiff it, shank it, or hit it out-of-bounds. But even if one of those bad things happens, I've got a little money in the bank, my wife still loves me, and my dog won't bite me when I come home.”
“Did you found something? asked she with hope. Yes, this until... Until what...? Until you stick your breasts on my back.And you realize that now I can't think about lions anymore!”
“It's for management to enthuse & motivate employees towards excellence in service; the profit incentive doesn't last”
“I've never been a waif; I have a womanly figure and always did.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Being a mum makes you more aware of how short life is and how important it is to enjoy every minute because you have less time for yourself. A day doesn't have 24 hours any more - it only lasts 10, or eight. So you learn to get rid of all the parasites. I'm not talking about people, but things that could be toxic for happiness.”
“And if we seem nutty to you and if we seem like an odd ball to you, just remember one thing. The mighty oak tree was once a nut just like me.”
“Trying to say something is all you got in life.”
“Everything is biographical, Lucian Freud says. What we make, why it is made, how we draw a dog, who it is we are drawn to, why we cannot forget. Everything is collage, even genetics. There is the hidden presence of others in us, even those we have known briefly. We contain them for the rest of our lives, at every border we cross.”

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