"You making haste on decay: not blameworthy; life is good, be it stubbornly long or suddenly A mortal splendor: meteors are not needed less than mountains: shine, perishing republic."

-- Robinson Jeffers

#Life Quotes #Long Quotes #Shining Quotes

“Clouds float in the same pattern only once.”

Source : Twitter post from May 15, 2017
“Composition for me is, externally at least, scarcely distinguishable from catatonia.”

Source : Richard Wilbur, William Butts (1990). “Conversations with Richard Wilbur”, p.180, Univ. Press of Mississippi
“Hitters never showed me up, as hard as I threw. And I was pretty mean out on the mound.”

Source : "Unwritten rules violations". Interview with Jerry Crasnick, www.espn.com. May 5, 2010.
“If, for example, all the codons are triplets, then in addition to the correct reading of the message, there are two incorrect readings which we shall obtain if we do not start the grouping into sets of three at the right place.”
“I do my best work when I am in pain and turmoil.”
“A substantial extension of public ownership is an essential pre-requisite of greater equality of earned income”
“The comfortable thing about the study of history is that it inclines us to think hopefully of our own times.”
“The men whose manhood you have broken will loathe you, and will always be brooding and scheming to strike a fresh blow.”

Source : James Larkin (1995*). “In the footsteps of Big Jim: a family biography”, Blackwater Press

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