"As a direct line to human feeling, empathic experience, genuine language and detail, poetry is everything that headline news is not. It takes us inside situations, helps us imagine life from more than one perspective, honors imagery and metaphor - those great tools of thought - and deepens our confidence in a meaningful world."

-- Naomi Shihab Nye

#Meaningful Quotes #Perspective Quotes #Poetry Quotes

“He is so mean, he won't let his little baby have more than one measle at a time.”

Source : Eugene Field, Peter Pauper Press (1966). “A comic primer”
“The urge to grow and develop, present in all forms of life, becomes perverted in the Bisy Backson's mind into a constant struggle to change everything (the Bulldozer Backson) and everyone (the Bigoted Backson) else but himself, and interfere with things he has no business interfering with, including practically every form of life on earth.”
“I am flattered that Bob Carter should ask me to launch what I think is a significant new book on climate change. I have developed a very high regard for Bob in the years that I have known him. He has been a terrific and leading voice in combatting the scare mongering that we have all been subjected to on the theory of anthropogenic global warming.”
“I like to buy books for the kids in my family. I guess that's why they call me the 'mean' aunt.”
“Quantum field theory, which was born just fifty years ago from the marriage of quantum mechanics with relativity, is a beautiful but not very robust child.”
“I got my SAG card when I was 10 by starring in a Beenie Weenie's commercial.”
“The revolution begins at home.”
“Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience.”

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