"This We Know. All Things Are Connected"

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Source : Seattle (Chief), Susan Jeffers (1991). “Brother eagle, sister sky: a message from Chief Seattle”, Dial Books for Young Readers

Chief Seattle

#Connected Quotes

“Poetry itself is music. I'm just lucky that I can convert it into music.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“To keep our hand on the plow while wiping away our tears -- THAT is Christianity!”
“It may be safely affirmed that there neither is, nor can be, any essential difference between the language of prose and metrical composition.... They both speak by and to the same organs; the bodies in which both of them are clothed may be said to be of the same substance, their affections are kindred, and almost identical, not necessarily differing even in degree; Poetry sheds no tears "such as Angels weep," but natural and human tears; she can boast of no celestial ichor that distinguishes her vital juices from those of prose; the same human blood circulates through the veins of them both.”
“He made her drunk, this man made her drunk; and every time his eyes flashed into hers she could not breathe.”
“I have no recipe for how to combine things. But you must be sincere. And if you are, strangely, it will succeed.”
“You hold on to old experiences: injuries, injustices, and great love affairs, too. And you hold them in your joints and your organs, and wear them on your skin.”
“Do you ever sing in the car?" "Generally not. But I am driving a police car." "I think people would like a singing policeman. Makes life seem more like a musical. Like Foot-tastic." "You can talk for a long time about nothing." "I certainly can, you charming man!”
“I don't believe my athletes care what I know, until they know that I care.”

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