"And soon a branch, part of a hidden scene,The leafy mind, that long was tightly furled,Will turn its private substance into green,And young shoots spread upon our inner world."

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Source : Theodore Roethke (2011). “The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke”, p.28, Anchor

Theodore Roethke

#Long Quotes #Mind Quotes #Substance Quotes

“I've been an evangelistic Baptist all my life and still am to some degree.”
“There are just certain things that turn my head. It may be a girl's sense of humor, it may be her wit, or her belief system; it could be a lot of different things.”
“Some philosophers have begun writing sympathetically about predator elimination as a way of reducing animal suffering. From an environmental perspective this is somewhere between naÃ¯ve and potentially disastrous.”

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“Only God is the same yesterday, today and tomorrow. The Church has always been changing.”
“The aspects of patriotism that hush dissent, encourage going along, and sanction comfortable distancing and compliance with what is indecent and unacceptable... those aspects are too fundamental to ignore or gloss over.”
“Zachary Jernigan can't write a bad story. He couldn't even if he tried. Each and every time I start one of his inventive, carefully crafted, thoughtful and mind-bending tales I know Iâ€™m in for a treat. This collection is sci-fi at its intelligent best.”
“But housekeeping is fun. It is one job where you enjoy the results right along as you work. You may work all day washing and ironing, but at night you have the delicious feeling of sunny clean sheets and airy pillows to lie on. If you clean, you sit down at nightfall with the house shining and faintly smelling of wax, all yours to enjoy right then and there. And if you cookâ€”that creation you lift from the oven goes right to the table.”
“We have often had this particular exchange about climate and landscape and why we both feel so lonely here uprooted. It was what each of us had wanted of course.Besides wanting to experience a place we hated, we wanted to be insomniacs and loners, losers and drop-outs. To know the sky was the only location of meaning and joy left to us.”

Source : Fanny Howe (2000). “Indivisible”, Semiotext

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