"All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination."

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Wislawa Szymborska

#Reality Quotes #Agreement Quotes #Imagination Quotes

“All relationships are living and alive and moving and becoming something.”
“I have heard that the Saudi Arabians are paying Greenpeace to campaign against Nuclear Power. It wouldn't surprise me at all.”
“If somebody has a chance to put my food in their mouth, that tells the story.”
“I am never so calm as after I have written. And the next morning I will feel the familiar anxiety and I will have to begin the process all over again.”
“I'm not afraid of failing. I don't like to fail. I hate to fail. But I'm not afraid of it.”
“Count up the almonds, Count what was bitter and kept you waking, Count me in too: I sought your eye when you glanced up and no one would see you, I spun that secret thread Where the dew you mused on Slid down to pitchers Tended by a word that reached no oneâ€™s heart. There you first fully entered the name that is yours, you stepped to yourself on steady feet, the hammers swung free in the belfry of your silence, things overheard thrust through to you, whatâ€™s dead put itâ€™s arm around you too, and the three of you walked through the evening. Render me bitter. Number me among the almonds”
“I thank my mother, Terezinha, for the power of her transforming love.”
“I think if I were living in a utopian world, then it wouldn't be political commentary; it would be about daffodils.”

Source : "Taking Measurements: An Interview with Metric". Interview With Devon Powers, www.popmatters.com. October 12, 2004.

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