"Poetry is a sort of truancy, a dream within the dream of life, a wild flower planted among our wheat."

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Source : "The Voice of Poetry in the Conversation of Mankind". Essay by Michael Joseph Oakeshott, 1959.

Michael Joseph Oakeshott

#Dream Quotes #Flower Quotes #Wheat Quotes

“I want you to make love, not war, I know you've heard it before.”
“Only the hand that erases can write the true thing.”
“With arms outstretched on the cross. Jesus took holy God in one hand and sinful man with the other and brought the two together.”
“Although I studied, I have never been taught paintingbecause I possess in my psychological makeup a peculiarity that resents any outside interference.”
“If nothing changes, you will have to put your disappointment in perspective.”
“I don't see any point in playing the game if you don't win, do you?”
“In the past, presidents had been consulted about those kinds of decisions by SGs, and I thought it was the right thing to do.”

Source : "Farewell to the General". "Amicus" with Dahlia Lithwick, www.slate.com. June 28, 2016.
“When personal freedom's being abused, you have to move to limit it. That's what we did in the announcement I made last weekend on the public housing projects, about how we're going to have weapon sweeps”

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