"Poetry is the fiery index to the genius of the age."

-- Babette Deutsch

#Age Quotes #Genius Quotes #Poetry Is Quotes

“Responsibility does not only lie with the leaders of our countries or with those who have been appointed or elected to do a particular job. It lies with each of us individually.”
“Fame and money are gifts given to us only after we have gifted the world with our best, our lonely, our individual truths.”
“We should stop the non-scientific, pseudo-scientific, and anti-scientific nonsense emanating from the right wing, and start demanding immediate action to reduce global warming and prevent catastrophic climate change that may be on our horizon now. We must not let the [Bush] Administration distort science and rewrite and manipulate scientific reports in other areas. We must not let it turn the Environmental Protection Agency into the Environmental Pollution Agency.”
“My saddlebags are why Spanx exist! Now that I have a baby I also have a muffin top.”
“Schooling, by definition, must be conservative. It is naturally dependent on an older generationâ€™s level of knowledge and sense of values.”

Source : Leon Botstein (1997). “Jefferson's Children: Education and the Promise of American Culture”
“At last, the answer why. The lesson that had been so hard to find, so difficult to learn, came quick and clear and simple. The reason for problems is to overcome them. Why, thatâ€™s the very nature of man, I thought, to press past limits, to prove his freedom. It isnâ€™t the challenge that faces us, that determines who we are and what we are becoming, but the way we meet the challenge, whether we toss a match at the wreck or work our way through it, step by step, to freedom.”
“In life, as in restaurants, we swallow a lot of indigestible stuff just because it comes with the dinner.”
“It seemed like a nice neighborhood to have bad habits in.”

Source : Raymond Chandler (2011). “The Big Sleep & Farewell, My Lovely”, p.43, Modern Library

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