"Blackbirds are the cellos of the deep farms."

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Source : 'Green Mountain, Black Mountain' (1982)

Anne Stevenson

#Bird Quotes #Blackbirds Quotes

“Studying music encourages self-discipline and diligence, traits that carry over into intellectual pursuits and that lead to effective study and work habits. An association of music and math has, in fact, long been noted. Creating and performing music promotes self-expression and provides self-gratification while giving pleasure to others. In medicine, increasing published reports demonstrate that music has a healing effect on patients. For all these reasons, it deserves strong support in our educational system, along with the other arts, the sciences, and athletics.”
“I'm really lucky because my mom is a good beauty muse.”

Source : Source: www.harpersbazaar.com
“The 20th century peatlands ditching in Finland was the worst human environmental destruction action in Europe.”

Source : "Can Life Prevail?". Book by Pentti Linkola, 2004.
“There is between sleep and us something like a pact, a treaty with no secret clauses, and according to this convention it is agreed that, far from being a dangerous, bewitching force, sleep will become domesticated and serve as an instrument of our power to act. We surrender to sleep, but in the way that the master entrusts himself to the slave who serves him.”

Source : Maurice Blanchot (2015). “The Space of Literature”, p.264, U of Nebraska Press
“Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers's Centre Georges Pompidou of 1971-1977 - the true prototype of the modern museum as popular architectural spectacle - wound up costing so much more than planned that the French government solved the shortfall by cutting support for several regional museums.”
“The ruin of a State is generally preceded by an universal degeneracy of manners and contempt of religion.”

Source : Jonathan Swift, Thomas Roscoe (1859). “The works of Jonathan Swift, D.D.: with copious notes and additions and a memoir of the author”, p.244
“No man will take counsel, but every man will take money. Therefore, money is better than counsel.”
“The history of an oppressed people is hidden in the lies and the agreed myth of its conquerors.”

Source : Meridel Le Sueur, Elaine Hedges (1990). “Ripening: Selected Work”, p.66, Feminist Press at CUNY

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