"I built myself a house of glass:It took me years to make it:And I was proud. But now, alas!Would God someone would break it."

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Source : Edward Thomas (2011). “Selected Poems of Edward Thomas”, p.100, Faber & Faber

Edward Thomas

#Glasses Quotes #Years Quotes #House Quotes

“The focus of all life is its economy, the mode through which every living creature produces its material existence. I know no other criterion for the evaluation of social life except that of social economy. In society, just like anywhere else, the mode of production is the focus around which revolve all the modes of life: in the historical life of conscious beings, it is also the focus of all modes of consciousness.”

Source : "Briefwechsel". Book by Moses Hess, p. 253, 1959.
“I believe you make your day. You make your life.”
“Already old, the question Who shall die? Becomes unspoken Who is innocent?”

Source : Karl Jay Shapiro, Stanley Kunitz, David Ignatow (1998). “The Wild Card: Selected Poems, Early and Late”, p.7, University of Illinois Press
“Even in this room full of proud Manhattan Democrats. I can't shake that feeling that some people here are pulling for me ... I'm delighted to see you here tonight, Hillary.”
“It is no way to live, to wait to love.”
“Journalists say my music is "blue wave," or "dreamy," or "jangly-slacker jewel," and none of it really makes sense to me.”
“Through literacy you can begin to see the universe. Through music you can reach anybody. Between the two there is you, unstoppable.”
“We don't want to impose our solutions by force, we want to create a democratic space. We don't see armed struggle in the classic sense of previous guerrilla wars, that is as the only way and the only all-powerful truth around which everything is organized. In a war, the decisive thing is not the military confrontation but the politics at stake in the confrontation. We didn't go to war to kill or be killed. We went to war in order to be heard.”

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