"Things explain each other, not themselves."

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Source : George Oppen, Rachel Blau DuPlessis (1990). “The Selected Letters of George Oppen”, p.115, Duke University Press

George Oppen

“What remains of your past if you didn't allow yourself to feel it when it happened? If you don't have your experiences in the moment, if you gloss them over with jokes or zoom past them, you end up with curiously dispassionate memories.”

Source : FaceBook post by David Rakoff from Mar 05, 2017
“Leisure is gone,--gone where the spinning-wheels are gone, and the pack-horses, and the slow wagons, and the peddlers, who brought bargains to the door on sunny afternoons.”
“The only path to amazing runs directly through not-yet-amazing”
“Poetry is the morning dream of great minds.”
“Suffering for eight hours...the most unpleasant experience I've ever had.”
“It is true that we shall not be able to reach perfection, but in our struggle toward it we shall strengthen our characters and give stability to our ideas, so that, whilst ever advancing calmly in the same direction, we shall be rendered capable of applying the faculties with which we have been gifted to the best possible account.”
“For centuries the leaders of Christian thought spoke of women as a necessary evil, and the greatest saints of the Church are those who despise women the most.”
“I would say my relationships have always affected my music. Each one. I wrote most of my great songs, that I'm still using today, in 2008 when I had the worst heartbreak of my life with my first girlfriend. It inspired great music.”

Source : Source: thesource.com

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