"When I sleepwalk into your room, and pick you up, and hold you up in the moonlight, you cling to me hard, as if clinging could save us. I think you think I will never die, I think I exude to you the permanence of smoke or stars, even as my broken arms heal themselves around you."

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Source : Galway Kinnell (1973). “The Book of Nightmares”, p.49, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Galway Kinnell

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“The line has magnitude in one way, the plane in two ways, and the solid in three ways, and beyond these there is no other magnitude because the three are all.”
“Sanitation is more important than Independence.”
“What are these barriers that keep people from reaching anywhere near their real potential? The answer to that can be found in another question and that's this: Which is the most universal human characteristic: fear or laziness?”

Source : "Waking Life". www.imdb.com. January 23, 2001.
“Politics is too often regarded as a poor relation, inherently dependent and subsidiary; it is rarely praised as something with a life and character of its own.”

Source : Bernard Crick (1954). “In defence of politics”, p.11, Bernard Crick
“I am often accused of interfering in the private lives of citizens. Yes, if I did not, had I not done that, we wouldn't be here today.”
“I focus best and am most productive when Iâ€™m working in a friendâ€™s empty apartment. Itâ€™s hard for me to work at home. Too easy to procrastinate online, too easy to be distracted by the state of perpetual domestic chaos that rules my home.”
“It pleases me that people can be interactive”
“Depression is something that doesn't just go away. It's just... there and you deal with it. It's like... malaria or something. Maybe it won't be cured, but you've got to take the medication you're prescribed, and you stay out of situations that are going to trigger it.”

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