"But when the dust has drunk the blood of men, no resurrection comes for one who's dead."

-- Aeschylus

#Men Quotes #Blood Quotes #Dust Quotes

“I think everyone can enjoy games.”
“I would rather be attacked than unnoticed. For the worst thing you can do to an author is to be silent as to his works.”
“Human beings thought with their hands. It was their hands that were the answer of curiosity, that felt and pinched and turned and lifted and hefted. There were animals that had brains of respectable size, but they had no hands and that made all the difference.”
“Lost in loneliness and pain. Black and unendurable, Thinking of you with every Corpuscle of my flesh, in Every instant of night And day.”

Source : Kenneth Rexroth (1967). “The Collected Shorter Poems”, p.230, New Directions Publishing
“A man may take to drink because he feels himself to he a failure, and then fail all the more completely because he drinks. It is rather the same thing that is happening to the English language. It becomes ugly and inaccurate because our thoughts are foolish, but the slovenliness of our language makes it easier for us to have foolish thoughts.”
“Hire people inspired to achieve something big over people who demand something big before they feel inspired.”
“If it took Labouchere three columns to prove that I was forgotten, then there is no difference between fame and obscurity.”
“However, for the man who studies to gain insight, books and studies are merely rungs of the ladder on which he climbs to the summit of knowledge. As soon as a rung has raised him up one step, he leaves it behind. On the other hand, the many who study in order to fill their memory do not use the rungs of the ladder for climbing, but take them off and load themselves with them to take away, rejoicing at the increasing weight of the burden. They remain below forever, because they bear what should have bourne them.”

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