"Whatever you have to say, leave The roots on, let them Dangle And the dirt Just to make clear Where they come from."

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Source : Charles Olson (1997). “The Collected Poems of Charles Olson: Excluding the Maximus Poems”, p.106, Univ of California Press

Charles Olson

#Roots Quotes #Dirt Quotes #Clear Quotes

“I know my career is going badly because I'm being quoted correctly.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I've decided I can't really control people's perceptions of me. All I can do is decide on what I work on and how hard I work on it.”

Source : "A Minute With: James Franco on villains and being James Franco". Interview with Piya Sinha-Roy, www.reuters.com. November 27, 2013.
“I will always have my songs and I don't think I will ever dry-up”
“Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone.”
“Those who created this country chose freedom. With all of its dangers. And do you know the riskiest part of that choice they made? They actually believed that we could be trusted to make up our own minds in the whirl of differing ideas. That we could be trusted to remain free, even when there were very, very seductive voices - taking advantage of our freedom of speech - who were trying to turn this country into the kind of place where the government could tell you what you can and cannot do.”
“Grace in the soul is heaven in that soul.”
“Prison walls are meant not only to keep convicts in, but to keep the would-be investigator out.”

Source : Jessica Mitford (1973). “Kind and usual punishment: the prison business”, Vintage
“This really is my life's work, to go where there is suffering.”

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