"Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it."

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Percy Bysshe Shelley

#Lightning Quotes #Poetry Is Quotes

“I whoop people for truckloads of cash”
“Love measures our stature: the more we love, the bigger we are.”

Source : William Sloane Coffin (2008). “The Collected Sermons of William Sloane Coffin: The Riverside Years”, p.405, Westminster John Knox Press
“What if the book (of Genesis) is describing a dawning awareness of the world? The anthropologist Edmund Leach has argued that the 'bit' or binary digit is the basic unit of pre-logical communication. Genesis is a sprouting of 'bits', ie elementary binary distinctions.”

Source : Charles Hampden-Turner (1982). “Maps of the Mind”, Macmillan Publishing Company
“Honestly, I would think I would go way back to Biblical times and be one of the guys who saw Jesus Sermon on the Mount. It would be so cool to see what he was really like in person.”
“Strumming my pain with his fingers, singing my life with his words, killing me softly with his song.”

Source : Song: Killing Me Softly with His Song, Album: Killing Me Softly
“The only things we have to worry about are really stupid things...”
“Anger and hate against one we love steels our hearts, but contempt or pity leaves us silent and ashamed.”
“We have a centrist nationalist group of people in this country, lots of them, and we have a socialist group of people in this country, lots of them. And that's not, to me, the American idea.”

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