"How sociable the garden was. We ate and talked in given light. The children put their toys to grass All the warm wakeful August night."

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Source : Thom Gunn (2017). “Selected Poems of Thom Gunn”, p.103, Faber & Faber

Thom Gunn

#Summer Quotes #Children Quotes #Night Quotes

“When you record, you live with what you recorded for many many years, but when you play it's just an hour and a half and then once it's over it's over.”
“A common mistake we make is that we look for God in places where we ourselves wish to find him, yet even in the physical reality this is a complete failure. For example, if you lost your car keys, you would not search where you want to search, you would search where you must in order to find them.”

Source : Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.60, Criss Jami
“Will that light come again, As now these tears come...falling hot and real!”
“Remember, if you do the same act for 20, 30 years it gets a little boring unless you've got something else going for you... And the orchestra really kept you going. They'd laugh at all your jokes, even if they'd been hearing them for the last 30 years.”
“At home, off-duty, I wear T-shirts from Fruit of the Loom - but I have them tailored.”
“It's great fun to memorize somebody's biography, and then liberally play with the real facts of their life and go a step beyond reality.”

Source : "A Real Person Who Has Real Thoughts and Feelings". Interview with Stephanie Palumbo, logger.believermag.com. February 29, 2016.
“Happy! Who is happy? Was there not a serpent in Paradise itself? And if Eve had been perfectly happy beforehand, would she have listened to the tempter?”
“Kansas is a piece of real estate that completely disproves the theory of roundness as a quality of the planet earth.”

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