#Matter Quotes #World Quotes #Firmament Quotes
“Smiling is definitely one of the best beauty remedies”
“I had never before seen my friends come in beaten, their heads laid open, their noses broken, or seen them jailed for peaceably demonstrating that they wanted work. I had only known how workers lived. Now I was face to face with what our society did to workers who could get no work.”
“Mature people relate to each other without the need to merge.”
“Human beings tend not to spend money on health preventionally. We tend to spend it on top treatment.”
“If you are moneyed or educated, you will get a different sentence than someone who is not.”
“[Rubinstein was] a fountain from which music spouted, not a recitalist.”
“It isn't a coincidence that governments everywhere want to educate children. Government education, in turn, is supposed to be evidence of the state's goodness and its concern for our well-being. The real explanation is less flattering. If the government's propaganda can take root as children grow up, those kids will be no threat to the state apparatus. They'll fasten the chains to their own ankles. H.L. Mencken once said that the state doesn't just want to make you obey. It tries to make you want to obey. And that's one thing the government schools do very well.”
“As you go about your life, don't give 100 percent of your attention to the external world and your mind. Keep some within.”
Elizabeth Bishop Poet
Ezra Pound Poet
Helen Vendler Poet
John Ashbery Poet
Marianne Moore Poet
Robert Frost Poet
T. S. Eliot Playwright
Walt Whitman Poet
William Carlos Williams Poet