"It is not learning we need at all. Individuals need learning but the culture needs something else, the pulse of light on the sea, the warm urge of huddling together to keep out the cold. We need empathy, we need the eyes that still can weep."

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Source : Lydia Millet (2005). “Oh Pure and Radiant Heart”, p.266, Soft Skull Press

Lydia Millet

#Eye Quotes #Sea Quotes #Light Quotes

“God is a sound people make when they're too tired to think anymore.”
“When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.”
“It's very difficult for felons to live in society.”
“I used to look at composing music as problem solving. But as I get older, it's not about problem solving anymore. There are no solutions, because there are no problems. You just turn the tap and it flows out.”
“I may have looked happy but inside I was hopelessly depressed.”
“Words make love on the page like flies in the summer heat and the poet is only the bemused spectator.”
“When my family moved from Ireland in the 70s, Britain was such a difficult place to be Irish. It was a decade of real social and economic upheaval in Britain. There were strikes, the three-day week, the oil crises, huge inflation, the winter of discontent and, what was it, four Prime Ministers? And relations between Britain and Ireland at that time were at an all-time low. I was born in the year of Bloody Sunday and of course the pub bombings happened in the mid-1970s.”
“What is new is not always true, and what is true is not always new.”

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