"Even this late it happens the coming of love, the coming of light. You wake and the candles are lit as if by themselves, stars gather, dreams pour into your pillows, sending up warm bouquets of air. Even this late the bones of the body shine and tomorrowâ€™s dust flares into breath."

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Source : Mark Strand (2014). “Collected Poems”, p.166, Knopf

Mark Strand

#Dream Quotes #Stars Quotes #Air Quotes

“The ‘black metallers’ will probably continue to ‘get loaded,’ ‘get high,’ and in all other manners too behave like the stereotypical Negro; they will probably continue to get foreign tribal tattoos, dress, walk, talk, look and act like homosexuals, and so forth.”
“If I am not above the law, nobody in this country can then claim to be above the law.”
“I work very hard to achieve simplicity, which is never natural, never spontaneous. It's always obtained at the price of a great effort.”

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“Then the sun broke above the crest of the hills and the entire countryside looked soaked in blood, the arroyos deep in shadow, the cones of dead volcanoes stark and biscuit-colored against the sky. I could smell pinion trees, wet sage, woodsmoke, cattle in the pastures, and creek water that had melted from snow. I could smell the way the country probably was when it was only a dream in the mind of God.”

Source : James Lee Burke (2007). “Jesus Out to Sea: Stories”, p.54, Simon and Schuster
“If you really want to hurt your parents and you don't have nerve enough to be homosexual, the least you can do is go into the arts.”
“For as we have many members in one body, and all members have not the same office: so we, being many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another.”
“The feminist women's organization NOW has endorsed Carol Moseley-Braun for president. Once again NOW has shown it is so far behind the times it should change its name to THEN.”
“Most composers and arrangers these days use computer programs and keyboards, but I'm one of those dinosaurs that still writes it down on score paper and still dreams it up in his ear first.”

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