"The visible exhausts me. I am dissolved in shadow."

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Source : Theodore Roethke (2006). “Straw for the Fire: From the Notebooks of Theodore Roethke, 1943-63”, p.150, Copper Canyon Press

Theodore Roethke

“I can't think of any one film that improved on a good novel, but I can think of many good films that came from very bad novels.”
“Words are difficult and photography takes the words away from things. It's difficult to talk about something that seems to come very naturally to you, to explain a process. A moment is really difficult to put on paper.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“The corporations and the media don't need power; they already have it.”
“We need to return to the cosmopolitanism of Alexandria of yore, and marry that with the tolerance and democracy of Europe today”
“I long to embrace, to include in my own short life, all that is accessible to man. I long to speak, to read, to wield a hammer in a great factory, to keep watch at sea, to plow. I want to be walking along the Nevsky Prospect, or in the open fields, or on the ocean - wherever my imagination ranges.”
“I mean, it was a rough place ["Wild Bill Hickok"], and you had to wear this kind of cloak that you were a badass, and the most efficient way to do that was with your language. Swearing was just a part of how you got by during the day, and it was quite historically accurate, that depiction.”

Source : "Keith Carradine on Deadwood, Fargo, and Madonna". Interview with Will Harris, www.avclub.com. July 20, 2016.
“There are millions of children today who don't attend school. However, education is the only way to get ahead in this country.”
“We think in terms of fate even if we don't believe in it. Even something as trivial as missing the bus - we think: Well, it might be good for something. We always have that thought, no matter how critical we try to be. The idea that everything is always total chance - we're not made for that.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com

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