"Do you know what would hold me together on a battlefield? The sense that I was perpetuating the language in which Keats and the rest of them wrote!"

-- Wilfred Owen

#Together Quotes #Holding On Quotes #Language Quotes

“When you make 'The Daily Show', it's usually not for a laurel, it's for a dart.”

Source : "Brian Williams: Why Jon Stewart Is Good For News". www.npr.org. January 10, 2010.
“If something's not mean't for you, you won't get it, simple as that.”
“As soon as the Gospels were written, speech without experience began to dabble with the new facts proposed by the existence of the Church. People tried to think the new life without being touched by it first in some form of call, listening, passion or change of heart.”

Source : Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy (1978). “The Fruit of Lips: Of Why Four Gospels?”, p.85, Wipf and Stock Publishers
“Give a woman a job and she grows balls.”

Source : Jack Gelber (1974). “The Apple & Square in the Eye”
“Any art worthy of its name should address 'life', 'man', 'nature', 'death' and 'tragedy'.”
“Chess is not for timid souls.”
“If you want to play something that you hear, you need to listen with your mind's eye. You've heard of the mind's eye, right? Your mind has an ear too. It's a kind of listening, but it's not using your ears to listen. It's listening with your inner ear, and that's what you want to translate onto the guitar.”
“So small, so blue, in grassy places / My flowers raise / Their tiny faces.”

Source : Cicely Mary Barker (1991). “A Treasury of Flower Fairies”, Warne

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