"Poetry calls us to pause. There is so much we overlook, while the abundance around us continues to shimmer, on its own."

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Naomi Shihab Nye

#Abundance Quotes #Shimmer Quotes

“"Play it as it lies" is one of the fundamental dictates of golf”
“I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as derivative from consciousness. We cannot get behind consciousness. Everything that we talk about, everything that we regard as existing, postulates consciousness.”
“That which is called liberality is frequently nothing more than the vanity of giving.”
“Without translation, I would be limited to the borders of my own country. The translator is my most important ally. He introduces me to the world.”
“Now that I've had a book published, it is quite validating, but a bit embarrassing.”
“It has a double meaning - the superabundance also means the space around, the incomparable massiveness of things, and how there's not much of a discrepancy between the tiniest microbe and the supercluster: the small and the infinite are inseparable.”

Source : "A Flow Of Playfulness: An Interview With Laniakea". Interview with Russell Cuzner, thequietus.com. September 14, 2016.
“Art, not less eloquently than literature, teaches her children to venerate the single eye. Remember Matsys. His representations of miser-life are breathing. A forfeited bond twinkles in the hard smile. But follow him to an altar-piece. His Apostle has caught a stray tint from his usurer. Features of exquisite beauty are seen and loved; but the old nature of avarice frets under the glow of devotion. Pathos staggers on the edge of farce.”
“I'm just as insufferable and useless as every other dad is. The dynamic never changes, no matter what you do for a living.”

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