"The delicate thought, that cannot find expression, For ruder speech too fair, That, like thy petals, trembles in possession, And scatters on the air."

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Source : Bret Harte (1904). “The Writings of Bret Harte”

Bret Harte

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“Even though I had a good income from my lectures, no one would give me a loan. The insanity almost drove me to sympathize with the feminist movement.”
“Of course, when a poem is being born, the reasoning part of the brain throbs away at full throttle, but all the other areas are overlapping and interacting as well, the emotional, intuitive, animal areas.”

Source : Source: www.poetrymagazines.org.uk
“There was a clarity to the Nineties. It was pre-9/11, before that anxiety kicked in that exists right now about the financial crisis or terrorism. We were all just going to move forward into the millennium and everything was always going to get better. Then, whoops, that didn't happen.”
“Dreams have consequences. There is no turning back. A revolution is not a painless march to the gates of freedom and justice. It is a struggle between rage and hope, between the temptation to destroy and the desire to build. Its temperament is desperate. It is a tormented response to the past, to all that has happened, the recalled and unrecalled injusticesâ€”for the memory of a revolution reaches much further back than the memory of its protagonists.”

Source : "The Consequences of Dreams" by Hisham Matar, www.newyorker.com. July 31, 2014.
“Java is like a variant of the game of Tetris in which none of the pieces can fill gaps created by the other pieces, so all you can do is pile them up endlessly.”

Source : "Code's Worst Enemy". steve-yegge.blogspot.ru. December 19, 2007.
“I am generally way out of touch with trends, except now and then I am surprised to find myself leading one, like sympathetic vampires.”
“If you want to be loved, be lovable.”
“My grandmother was an English teacher for a while. And she stressed to me the importance of reading, being able to articulate well.”

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