"The woman is not just a pleasure, nor even a problem. She is a meniscus that allows the absolute to have a shape, that lets him skate however briefly on the mystery, her presence luminous on the ordinary and the grand. Like the odor at night in Pittsburghâ€™s empty streets after summer rain on maples and sycamore."

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Source : Jack Gilbert (2013). “The Dance Most of All: Poems”, p.23, Knopf

Jack Gilbert

#Summer Quotes #Rain Quotes #Night Quotes

“Cover the earth, before it covers you.”
“A man who is always ready to believe what is told him will never do well, especially a businessman.”

Source : Petronius (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Petronius (Illustrated)”, p.183, Delphi Classics
“If the true freedom of the press is to decide for itself what to publish and when to publish it, the true responsibility of the press must be to assert and defend that freedom... What the press in America needs is less inhibition, not more restraint.”
“Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going to fast - you also miss the sense of where you are going and why.”
“If you can't be proud of what you do, go and sell shoes. Do something else.”
“I have seen how the foundations of the world are laid, and I have not the least doubt that it will stand a good while.”
“Water, the Hub of Life. Water is its mater and matrix, mother and medium. Water is the most extraordinary substance! Practically all its properties are anomolous, which enabled life to use it as building material for its machinery. Life is water dancing to the tune of solids.”
“As for the herbal cigarettes, for the most part I don't smoke as much as the guys do. I'm usually just strutting around a bit more so I don't actually have to be inhaling it. I'm lucky because I do have scenes where the cigarettes work beautifully to punctuate certain things I'm saying.”

Source : "Christina Hendricks In British GQ: In Lingerie, Adores Tight Clothing". www.huffingtonpost.com. August 3, 2010.

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