"Night calls to the sandhills and gathers them under her. She pushes away cities because their sharp lights hurt her soft breast. Even candles make a sore place when they stick in the night."

--

Source : Lola Ridge (1920). “Sun-up, and Other Poems”

Lola Ridge

#Hurt Quotes #Night Quotes #Light Quotes

“With something like cancer, there is a feeling that you can fight it in some way or control your response to it, but with dementia there is the fear of losing control of your mind and your life.”
“You can always speak with great authority on how well you played today, but never on how you'll play tomorrow.”
“Well, you know what? If that guy can do it, I can be myself too, and if that rapper can be himself and be free and be happy and still hold masculinity and love people and love flowers and just be happy being alive, well then, I can do that too.”

Source : "Rapper Lil B on 'I'm Gay': 'We're all one people'". Interview with Gavin Godfrey, www.cnn.com. May 31, 2011.
“But the question is - are we deporting a couple hundred people for show or are we actually making a serious effort to remove everybody who's got a final order of removal? When I say enforcement theater, what I mean is a kind of pretend enforcement.”

Source : "A Closer Look At Obama Administration's Controversial Deportation Plans". "All Things Considered" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. December 26, 2015.
“You're so kind, Kazuhiko. That's what I like about you." I like you, too. I love you so much." If he weren't so inarticulate, Kazuhiko could have said so much more. How much her expression, her gentle manner, her pure untainted soul meant to him. How important, in short, her existence was to him. But he wasn't able to put into words. He was only a third-year student in junior high, and worst yet, composition was one of his worst subjects.”
“I'm the worst tweeter ever. I don't know what I'm doing. I really don't.”
“I extract what I consider the best material from different sources. But often the material I perform comes from a very strange location in history, which are minstrel shows.”
“I was not looking now at an unusual flower arrangement. I was seeing what Adam had seen on the morning of his creation - the miracle, moment by moment, of naked existence.”

You may also like: