"Reptilian green the wrinkled throat, Green as a bough of yew the beard; He bent his head, and so I smote"

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Source : Yvor Winters (1960). “Collected poems”

Yvor Winters

#Green Quotes #Beard Quotes #Yew Quotes

“Why would you want to keep the bluebird houses mounted in a place that you now know is unsafe for them? Bluebirds are not ornaments for pictures, they are living things that deserve your best effort if you are going to be a landlord to them. There is no magic spell that will protect those bluebirds--they have to depend on you or they are doomed.”
“That Shay was in possesion of hand grenades was a comforting thought showed what kind of night this had become.”
“Between here and heaven, every minute that the Christian lives will be a minute of grace.”
“...there were two kinds of women: those who wear nail polish and those who don't. Which do you prefer?...”
“What do you suppose will satisfy the soul, except to walk free and own no superior?”
“The net is more than an organizing tool - it has become an organizing model, a blueprint for decentralized but cooperative decision-making. It facilitates the process of information sharing to such an extent that many groups can work in concert with one another without the need to achieve monolithic consensus.”
“If someone says, hey, you know, this long weekend, let's go skydiving - I would say, no, are you nuts? I'd just as soon sit down and have a cup of tea.”

Source : "'Canadian Jon Stewart' Explains Thanksgiving". Interview with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. October 9, 2010.
“A cold, self-righteous prig who goes regularly to church may be far nearer to Hell than a prostitute.”

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