"And yet, in a culture like ours, which is given to material comforts, and addicted to forms of entertainment that offer immediate gratification, it is surprising that so much poetry is written."

-- Mark Strand

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“Though actually the work of man's hands - or, more properly speaking, the work of his travelling feet, - roads have long since come to seem so much a part of Nature that we have grown to think of them as a feature of the landscape no less natural than rocks and trees.”

Source : Richard Le Gallienne (1915). “Vanishing Roads, and Other Essays”
“Gossip, even when it avoids the sexual, bears around it a faint flavor of the erotic.”
“The dark is light enough.”

Source : Title of play (1954)
“Of two equivalent theories or explanations, all other things being equal, the simpler one is to be preferred.”
“I was very adamant about not being called a jazz singer, but now I've embraced it. The way I approach music is through jazz, so I'm a jazz singer.”
“Now there is in a way a renaissance of modern dance - suddenly, it is more respected and discovered.”
“We have learned the simple truth, as Emerson said that the only way to have a friend is to be one. We can gain no lasting peace if we approach it with suspicion or mistrust or with fear.”
“I figure if I have one false start every ten or 12 years that I've been running, I probably won't false start again during my career.”

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