"We read fine things but never feel them to the full until we have gone the same steps as the author."

-- John Keats

#Book Quotes #Gone Quotes #Steps Quotes

“I always lived in a multilingual society (Polish-Ukrainian, German-Ukrainian, English-Ukrainian), and was open to outside linguistic influences. I think it was within three years of coming to the US that I started writing in English, although purely for myself, not trying to get it published. Living in America, I was constantly in touch with English, and Ukrainian was for me a private language.”
“Plan your progress carefully; hour-by hour, day-by-day, month-by-month. Organized activity and maintained enthusiasm are the wellsprings of your power.”
“No one ever lost his job by listening too much.”
“I'm not a big method actor. I'm much more superficial.”
“Along the borders to Ethiopia and Somalia, anarchy reigns, the police and military have retreated quite some distance.”
“I saw the sunlight in a leafy place, Bathing itself in liquid green and amber-- Where every flower had tears hid in its petals, And every leaf was lovely with the rain.”

Source : Ernest Rhys (1918). “The Leaf Burners: And Other Poems”
“Heaven and happiness do not exist. That is your parentsâ€™ way to justify the crime of having brought you into this world. What exists is reality, the tough reality, this slaughterhouse weâ€™ve come to die in, if not to kill and to eat the animals, our fellow creatures. Therefore, do not reproduce, do not repeat the crimes committed against you, do not give back the same, evil paid with evil, as imposing life is the ultimate crime. Do not disturb the unborn, let them be in the peace of nothingness. Anyway weâ€™ll all eventually go back there, so why beat around the bush?”
“It's hard to see a river all at once, especially in the mountains. Down on the plains, rivers run in their course as straightforward as time, channeled toward the sea. But up in the headwaters, a river isn't a point where you stand. In the beginnings of the river, you teeter on the edge of a hundred tiny watersheds where one drop of water is always tipping the balance from one stream to another. History changes with each tiny event, shaping an outcome that we can only fully grasp in hindsight. And that view changes as we move farther downstream.”

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