"And wilt thou sing the shadowy hosts that never march again?"

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Source : Harry Kemp (1914). “The Cry of Youth”

Harry Kemp

#March Quotes #Host Quotes

“How ignorant we are! How ignorant everyone is! We can cut across only a small area of the appallingly expanding fields of knowledge. No human being can know more than a tiny fraction of the whole. It must have been satisfactory in ancient times when one's own land seemed to be the universe; when research studies, pamphlets, books did not issue in endless flow; when laboratories and scientists were not so rapidly pushing back frontiers of knowledge that the process of unlearning the old left you gasping for breath.”
“Life is beautiful, enjoy every moment of it.”
“...I begin with songs. They provide a sort of skeleton grammar for me to flesh out. Songs of longing for future tense, songs of regret for past tense, and songs of love for present tense.”
“When I go to one of those singles dating parties I believe myself to be a bowl of fruit. When I talk to potential dates, I judge them by the smile in their lips, their smoothness of speech, and the whiteness of teeth; then I offer them the appropriate fruit, which is usually a lemon.”
“I note the obvious differences between each sort and type, but we are more alike, my friends, than we are unalike.”
“Iâ€™m going to be mentally ill in fifteen years, and thatâ€™s why my husband doesnâ€™t want to be around me.”
“I think the point of obsession with food means we're healthy as a species. When we're hungry, everything tastes good, hunger is the best spice. When you're in a area that has few resources, you work incredibly hard to have something. And then you make the something taste good. The greatest food in the world comes from the inventiveness of great privation. What emerges is all the miraculous fermentations and all the strong flavors. You put it together in the right way, it's delicious. That defines survival, and our human species.”

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“We lift ourselves by our own thought; we climb upon our vision of ourselves.”

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