"Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe."

-- Adrienne Rich

#Relationship Quotes #Language Quotes #Concentration Quotes

“No one is above the law, not even the president. I believe perjury does meet at least the definition of high misdemeanor.”
“Even before I had an assistant, my calendar was color-coded and I had all these different e-mail rules for how to prioritize e-mails, so I made it a point years ago to figure all that stuff out because my life was a mess.”
“I act on impulse and I go with my instincts.”
“And I think about my cell at the Pawiak prison. During the first week I felt I would not be able to endure a day without a book, without the circle of light under the parafin lamp in the evening, without a sheet of paper, without you. . . .”
“You know, honestly, if a girl can make me laugh, I'm pretty much sold.”
“I am the luckiest novelist in the world. I was a first-time novelist who wasn't awash in rejection slips, whose manuscript didn't disappear in slush piles. I have had a wonderful time.”
“Still ours the dance, the feast, the glorious Psalm, The mystic lights of emblem, and the Word.”

Source : Emma Lazarus (2015). “The Poems of Emma Lazarus, Volume II: Jewish Poems and Translations”, p.19, Courier Corporation
“To live in an evolutionary spirit means to engage with full ambition and without any reserve in the structure of the present, and yet to let go and flow into a new structure when the right time has come.”

Source : Erich Jantsch (1980). “The self-organizing universe: scientific and human implications of the emerging paradigm of evolution”, Pergamon Pr

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