"Time flames like a paraffin stove / and what burns are the minutes I live."

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Source : Irving Layton (2012). “A Wild Peculiar Joy: The Selected Poems”, p.79, McClelland & Stewart

Irving Layton

#Flames Quotes #Minutes Quotes #Stoves Quotes

“In order to get one of the greatest inventions of the modern age, in other words, we thought we needed the solitary genius. But if Alexander Graham Bell had fallen into the Grand River and drowned that day back in Brantford, the world would still have had the telephone, the only difference being that the telephone company would have been nicknamed Ma Gray, not Ma Bell.”
“I have observed dreams and visions very carefully, and am now certain that the imagination has some way of lighting on the truth that the reason has not, and that its commandments, delivered when the body is still and the reason silent, are the most binding we can ever know.”
“Raising kids is part joy and part guerrilla warfare.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“I always had a larger view. I'm interested in real life - my family, my friends. I have tried never to define myself by my success, whatever that is. My happiness is way beyond roles and awards.”
“When you pull on that jersey, you represent yourself and your teammates, and the name on the front is a hell of a lot more important than the one on the back. Get that through your head!”
“Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.”
“If you yourself do not cut the lines that tie you to the dock, God will have to use a storm to sever them and to send you out to sea. You have to get out past the harbor into the great dephts of God, and begin to know things for yourself....beg in to have spiritual discernment. Beware of paying attention or going back to what you once were, when God wants you to be something that you have never been.”
“Logic cannot comprehend love; so much the worse for logic.”

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