"There are days we live as if death were nowhere in the background; from joy to joy to joy, from wing to wing, from blossom to blossom to impossible blossom, to sweet impossible blossom."

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Source : Li-Young Lee (1986). “Rose: Poems”, p.21, BOA Editions, Ltd.

Li-Young Lee

#Sweet Quotes #Wings Quotes #Joy Quotes

“Isn't it nice that people who prefer Los Angeles to San Francisco live there?”

Source : Herb Caen (1958). “New Guide to San Francisco and the Bay Area”
“As the highly colored birds do not fly around in the dull, leaden plains of a sandy desert, but amid all the settings of natureâ€™s leaves and blossoms, and lights and shadesâ€”natureâ€™s framework of their pictureâ€”so there are truths which do not appear well in arid fields of philosophic inquiry, but which demand the colored air and the bowers of poetry to be the setting of their charms.”

Source : "Motives of Life".
“It's kind of fun when it's you versus them.”
“However, if we examine the Canadian scene closely enough, we can see signs of this physical and spiritual rot settling into a number of our Canadian urban centres with a troubling spill-over into many of our more rural areas.”
“My glass of wine and I are besties.”
“I run a business. People want to work for less money, I pay them less money. ... Women shouldnâ€™t be so grateful. Know what youâ€™re worth. Walk away.”

Source : "Amy Pascal Speaks Out About Getting 'Fired' From Sony" by Ryan Gajewski, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 11, 2015.
“Before you go out there and try to conquer the universe... get your act together.”
“If rulers learn to undervalue the lives of their own subjects by the custom of war, how much more do they undervalue the lives of their enemies! As they learn to hear of the loss of five hundred or a thousand of their own men, with perhaps less feeling than they would hear of the death of a favorite horse or dog, so they learn to hear of the death of thousands after thousands on the side of the enemy with joy and exultation.”

Source : Noah Worcester, Massachusetts Peace Society (Founded 1815) (1816). “The friend of peace”, p.24

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