"What is desire but the hard wire argument given to the mind's unstoppable mouth"

-- Mary Jo Bang

#Mind Quotes #Desire Quotes #Wire Quotes

“ours are the only farmers who can read Homer”
“Any honest conversation about engaging young people must address discrimination against young people.”
“I am a black male who grew up in the inner city of Atlanta and no one ever followed me in a mall. I don't recall any doors clicking when I crossed the street. And I never had anyone clutching their handbag when I got on an elevator. I guess having two awesome parents who taught me to be a respectful young man paid dividends.”
“When I was a young girl salmon fishing with my father in the Straits of Juan de Fuca in Washington State I used to lean out over the water and try to look past my own face, past the reflection of the boat, past the sun and darkness, down to where the fish were surely swimming. I made up charm songs and word-hopes to tempt the fish, to cause them to mean biting my hook. I believed they would do it if I asked them well and patiently and with the right hope. I am writing my poems like this. I have used the fabric and the people of my life as the bait.”
“As David Roderick says about writing, "It's not the tale that pleases, it's the telling," and I could not agree more.”

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“As a composer you want to tell musicians two completely contradictory things. You want to say, "Play exactly what I wrote, but bring your own thing to it." In a lot of ways they feel like opposites, but in a sense, my job is to cajole or encourage decisions that I approve of.”
“You who are born of the hills/ Hill-bred, lover of hills/ Though the world may not you aright/Though your soul be aweary with ill/This will you know above other men/In the hills you will find your peace again.”
“You get one pass at life. Thatâ€™s all. Only one. And the lasting measure of that life is Jesus Christ.”

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