"The present moment is our ain, The neist we never saw!"

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Source : William Julius Mickle, Tobias George Smollett (1822). “The Poems of Mickle, and Smollett”, p.93

William Julius Mickle

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“Ice-skating is a dangerous proposition and tennis is going to be something I'm probably not very good at.”
“Nobody wants a prediction that the future will be more or less like the present, even if that is, statistically speaking, an excellent prediction.”
“To assert in any case that a man must be absolutely cut off from society because he is absolutely evil amounts to saying that society is absolutely good, and no-one in his right mind will believe this today.”
“You don't make the poor richer by making the rich poorer.”
“I've always believed that poetry must speak of realities as least as complicated as those spoken of in prose. I've read books of poems, even single poems, which are, for me, at least the equivalent of a short story or a novel. Martin Amis, in an interview with Saul Bellow in the early eighties, quotes Bellow asking, "Why not address 'the mysterious circumstance of being', say what it's like to be alive at this time, on this planet?" This has been and still is my ambition.”

Source : Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org
“Better Than You island doesn't exist. And if it does it's full of idiots, looking over their shoulder for the next idiot to arrive.”
“My songwriting and overall approach to music go beyond just good singing and strong musicality - I want people, now more so than ever, to feel something and be moved somehow by the content I create.”
“The repeated claim before the 'seizure of power' - that the NSDAP, as a national social-revolutionary movement, and not simply another political party... would create new bonds of unity through its elimination and transcending of the party system, was highly attractive and conveyed much of Nazism's dynamic appeal.”

Source : Ian Kershaw (2001). “The "Hitler Myth": Image and Reality in the Third Reich”, p.103, Oxford Paperbacks

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