"The lowest ebb is the turn of the tide. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow We are such stuff as dreams are made of."

-- William Shakespeare

#Dream Quotes #Stuff Quotes #Tides Quotes

“I never use the word "drug" without defining it. I define it exactly the way the DEA defines it, "a chemical compound capable of reproduction in standardized dosages." I explain that ***** is a plant with many drugs in it, just like any other plant.”
“Without language, it is safe to say that man would not have become fully human.”
“I don't have a saviour or a royal family.”
“Fatalism is the lazy man's way of accepting the inevitable.”
“Here and there even in our world, and now and then, even in ourselves, we catch glimpeses of a New Creation, which, fleeting as those glipmses are apt to be, give us hope both for this life and for whatever life may await us later on.”
“As a matter of fact, wherever I find that law exists, I will not perform in that state or in that part of the world.”
“[talking about the Holocaust] 'But to put something in context is a step towards saying it can be understood and that it can be explained. And if it can be explained that it can be explained away.' 'But this is History. Distance yourselves. Our perspective on the past alters. Looking back, immediately in front of us is dead ground. We don't see it, and because we don't see it this means that there is no period so remote as the recent past. And one of the historian's jobs is to anticipate what our perspective of that period will be... even on the Holocaust.”
“Even the upper end of the river believes in the ocean.”

Source : William Stafford (1998). “The Way It Is: New and Selected Poems”, Graywolf Press

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