"The poet may be used as a barometer, but let us not forget that he is also part of the weather."

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Source : 1950 The Liberal Imagination.

Lionel Trilling

#Weather Quotes #Poetry Quotes #May Quotes

“...Wild to hold, though I seem tame.”

Source : Sir Thomas Wyatt, “Whoso List To Hunt, I Know Where Is An Hind”
“There's a scientific hypothesis that every person's name is a primary suggestive command that contains the entire script of their life in highly concentrated form. . . . According to this point of view, there is only a limited number of names, because society only needs a limited number of human types. Just a few models of worker and warrior ants, if I could put it like that. And everybody's psyche is preprogrammed at a basic level by the associative semantic fields that their first name and surname activate.”
“I realized this weak that I just cannot do it all. So I will choose to do what i can, fabulously.”
“I don't see what was wrong with the old inkpads.”
“The Aga Khan Awards for Architecture seeks to make a better place in physical terms. This means trying to bring values into environments, buildings, and contexts that improve the quality of life for future generations.”
“Mine is the art of inspiring people to turn themselves inside out, transform their suffering into art, their art into awareness and their awareness into action”
“I go into every film not just wanting to play the hot girl in the movie. It kills me.”
“Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, something is out of tune.”

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