"Longing, we say, because desire is full of endless distances."

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Source : "Meditation at Lagunitas" l. 24 (1979)

Robert Hass

#Distance Quotes #Desire Quotes #Longing Quotes

“Don't underestimate us nerds!”
“By buying big - going narrow and deep, as opposed to a diversifying - you maximize your successes.”
“nothings promised, not the rest of tonight, not all of tomorrow!”
“They see poetry in what I have done. No. I apply my methods, and that is all there is to it.”

Source : Christoph Becker, Julia Burckhardt, Georges Seurat, Kunsthaus Zürich, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt (2009). “Georges Seurat: figure in space”, Hatje Cantz Pub
“I directed one of my shorts that did festivals around the world, and that was great. I've got a bit of a bug for that now. I just hope I keep challenging myself and keep doing stuff that interests me with people who I respect and who teach me stuff. If I can keep doing that in anything - acting, writing, directing or whatever - I'll do it because life is short.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“The great majority of the Senate of the United States...somewhere around 80 percent...are completely in support of Israel, anything Israel wants. This has been demonstrated time and again, and this has made it difficult.”
“Great ideas, it has been said, come into the world as gently as doves. Perhaps then, if we listen attentively, we shall hear amid the uproar of empires and nations, a faint flutter of wings, the gentle stirring of life and hope. Some will say that this hope lies in a nation; others in a man. I believe rather that it is awakened, revived, nourished, by millions of solitary individuals whose and works every day negate frontiers and the crudest implications of history.”
“The resistance to [black-and-white] is huge, in the way that you have to sell the film. It's difficult to distribute around the world.”

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