"It was among farmers and potato diggers and old men in workhouses and beggars at my own door that I found what was beyond these and yet farther beyond that drawingroom poet of my childhood in the expression of love, and grief, and the pain of parting, that are the disclosure of the individual soul."

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Source : Lady Gregory (1919). “The Kiltartan Poetry Book”, p.16, Library of Alexandria

Lady Gregory

#Pain Quotes #Grief Quotes #Men Quotes

“My parents were children during the Great Depression of the 1930s, and it scarred them. Especially my father, who saw destitution in his Brooklyn, New York neighborhood; adults standing in so called 'bread lines,' children begging in the streets.”
“I think rhythm is, when you talk about rhythmic sensibility, quite perceptive in that I like to have at least one thing that is at least common or familiar to the audience.”

Source : Interview with Mark Richardson, pitchfork.com. July 10, 2006.
“I didn't have the same fitness or ability as the other girls, so I had to beat them with my mind.”
“Democracy has no convictions for which people would be willing to stake their lives.”
“If you have enough push, you don't have to worry about the pull.”
“The big guys, the big dogs, are going to own everything from the White House to the courthouse.”

Source : "Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer Talks Citizens United Sr." by Charles P. Pierce, www.esquire.com. June 19, 2012.
“... conscienceless efficiency is no match for efficiency quickened by conscience.”

Source : Kelly Miller (1924). “The Everlasting Stain”
“No doubt I do act in 'bad faith' when I deliberately avoid facing an honest decision and follow the conventional pattern of behavior in order to be spared the anxiety that comes when one is... thrown into seventy thousand fathoms.”

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