"Yet the stones remain less real to those who cannot name them, or read the mute syllables graven in silica. To see a red stone is less than seeing it as jasper metamorphic quartz, cousin to the flint the Kiowa carved as arrowheads. To name is to know and remember."

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Source : Dana Gioia (2016). “99 Poems: New & Selected”, p.22, Macmillan

Dana Gioia

#Cousin Quotes #Real Quotes #Names Quotes

“A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance.”
“My religion recognizes no obligation to resolve doubt other than through rational means; and it commands no mere faith in eternal truths”
“This isn't funny. She was almost killed.' 'I'm aware. You're waiting to see if I will get angry.' 'I already know you're angry. You're sitting very still and you're talking very quietly. You're getting ready to kill someone.' 'I just need a name.”
“At what point does a fly give up trying to escape through a closed windowâ€“do its survival instincts keep it going until it is physicaly capable of no more,or does it eventualy learn after one crash too many that there is no way out? At what point do you decide that enough is enough?”

Source : "Forbidden". Book by Tabitha Suzuma, 2010.
“You cannot create a piece of art merely for money. Doing it as part of commerce so denudes art of wonder that it ceases to be art.”
“I've been very lucky to work with a lot of amazingly supportive directors.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“A knavish speech sleeps in a fool's ear.”
“Rhythms and sounds are often the first thing I hear and want in a poem, so I can't imagine trying to translate something without at least being able to hear what it sounds like.”

Source : "Road Trip". Interview with Ali Liebegott, logger.believermag.com. October 25, 2013.

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