"For the writer, discovering the work he will write is both like a miracle and a wound, like the miracle of the wound."

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Source : Edmond Jabes, Edmond Jabès, Rosmarie Waldrop (1991). “The Book of Questions: Volume I [The Book of Questions, The Book of Yukel, Return to the Book]”, p.27, Wesleyan University Press

Edmond Jabes

#Writing Quotes #Miracle Quotes #Discovering Quotes

“When we first meet what we love, we could become poets for our longing. When we are removed from what we love, we become singers of grief and weavers of elegant description.”

Source : Martín Prechtel (2013). “The Disobedience of the Daughter of the Sun: A Mayan Tale of Ecstasy, Time, and Finding One's True Form”, p.83, North Atlantic Books
“I never dreamed I would be a Goodwill Ambassador, and for UNESCO. Perfect organization. It is apolitical and it's about education, science and culture. I mean that is what I live. That is what UNESCO is really about; it's all about bringing human beings together with one common goal, which is to move human kind forward.”
“When I'm not in the booth, I'm one of the most laid-back guys. But growing up, I liked DMX, Jay-Z, 50 Cent, and T.I. - dudes that went all out on the track. My first songs were energetic because I liked their energy.”
“I had this whole hippie idea of how easy raising a baby would be. How he would just eat and sleep and listen to Mozart, and I could just go on with my life the way it was. I was very wrong. It [being a mother] has taught me to be present and to live inside my body rather than in some out-there fantasy world.”

Source : "Go Forth (vol. 5)". Interview with Brandon Hobson, logger.believermag.com. November 21, 2012.
“What our country deserves from everyone who enjoys its fruits and freedoms is a little more gratitude - and a lot less greed.”
“That which is good to be done, cannot be done too soon; and if it is neglected to be done early, it will frequently happen that it will not be done at all.”

Source : RICHARD MANT (1815). “SERMONS, FOR PAROCHIAL AND DOMESTIC USE”, p.285
“I get out of all of these things that many of these candidates would rather take legislation to build a time machine and go back in time to where, uh, we had, you know, no women voting, slavery was cool. I mean, it's just kind of ridiculous.”

Source : "MSNBC's Thomas Roberts: GOP Wants to Go Back to When No Women Voted, 'Slavery Was Cool'" by Tim Graham, www.newsbusters.org. September 23, 2011.
“We love and live in power; it is the spirit's end. Mind must subdue; to conquer is its life.”

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