"As for poetry 'belonging' in the classroom, it's like the way they taught us sex in those old hygiene classes: not performance but semiotics. If it I had taken Hygiene 71 seriously, I would have become a monk; & if I had taken college English seriously, I would have become an accountant."

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Source : Jerome Rothenberg (1981). “Pre-faces & Other Writings”, p.36, New Directions Publishing

Jerome Rothenberg

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“No one has a name in 'The Road.' Like Cormac McCarthy's novel from which it's adapted, 'The Road' features characters such as the man, the boy, the wife, the old man and the veteran.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“What was really interesting in his speech, which, by the way, had (inaudible) footnotes - the written version of it - which might be a personal record for Donald Trump - the source of a lot of his numbers on the free trade section of the speech came from an organization called the Economic Policy Institute, which was a think tank or is a think tank that was founded by labor unions to promote the labor unions' point of view on free trade agreements.”

Source : "'Forbes' Editor: Trump Continues 'Common Rhetorical Line' On Trade Deals". "All Things Considered" with Audie Cornish, www.npr.org. August 8, 2016.
“It was not the passion that was new to her, it was the yearning adoration. She knew she had always feared it, for it left her helpless; she feared it still, lest if se adored him too much, then she would lose herself, become effaced, and she did not want to be effaced, a slave, like a savage woman. She must not become a slave. She feared her adoration, yet she would not at once fight against it.”
“I watch old school film so that I can learn so much that I just sort of miss all the new stuff.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Misdirection is one of my strengths,”
“I don't have to play by these rules or do these things... I can actually have my own kind of version.”
“Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.”
“An environment-based education movement--at all levels of education--will help students realize that school isn't supposed to be a polite form of incarceration, but a portal to the wider world.”

Source : Richard Louv (2013). “Last Child in the Woods: Saving our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder”, p.176, Atlantic Books Ltd

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