"He wanted to think of words that would make some difference but there were none in any language he knew that were sufficient to the moment or that would change a single thing."

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Source : FaceBook post by Kent Haruf from Dec 18, 2016

Kent Haruf

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“I ran home in the moonlight with firm strides; for the sun-love made me strong.”
“Virtually everything we do in life is a matter of habit. Habits make us who we are. Why not change your habits to better your life?”

Source : Jack Lalanne (2008). “Fiscal Fitness: 8 Steps to Wealth & Health from America's Leaders of Fitness and Finance: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition”, p.127, ReadHowYouWant.com
“Write about what you don't know about what you know.”
“For sure, and we haven't found it yet. I understand why we have come to a time and place where we cannot touch the children at school for obvious reasons. I'm not that old, but back then some teacher would take our arm and squeeze it, and it was not fun.”
“My wife wonders why all women do not seek anglers for husbands. She has come in contact with many in her life with me and she claims that they all have a sweetness in their nature which others lack.”
“I myself have never called what I write anti-poetry. I also think that my poetry should not be only known as the poetry of Ernesto Cardenal but rather as Nicaraguan poetry.”

Source : Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org
“By failing to read or listen to poets, society dooms itself to inferior modes of articulation, those of the politician, the salesman, or the charlatan. In other words, it forfeits its own evolutionary potential. For what distinguishes us from the rest of the animal kingdom is precisely the gift of speech. Poetry is not a form of entertainment and in a certain sense not even a form of art, but it is our anthropological, genetic goal. Our evolutionary, linguistic beacon.”

Source : Joseph Brodsky's opening remarks as United States Poet Laureate, October 1991.
“Trump has a clear goal: the division of Europe and the destruction of the European domestic market. The fact that Brexit propagandist Nigel Farage was the first European he received in his tower speaks volumes. That is why we must strengthen the European domestic market and work even more closely together in Europe. That is absolutely compulsory for Germany.”

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