"Pictures rule, but words define, explain, express, direct, and hold together our thoughts and what we know."

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Source : Don Watson (2003). “Death sentence: the decay of public language”, Alfred A. Knopf

Don Watson

#Together Quotes #Language Quotes #Translations Quotes

“In a field I am the absence of field.That is always the case. Wherever I am, I am what is missing. When I walk I part the air and always the air moves in to fill the space where my body has been. We all have reasons for moving. I move to keep things whole.”

Source : Mark Strand (2014). “Collected Poems”, p.79, Knopf
“I was immediately taken with Geoff Muldaur's rich soulful voice, masterful phrasing and guitar playing when I first heard him.”
“What is the first part of politics? Education. The second? Education. And the third? Education.”

Source : Jules Michelet, G. H. Smith (1846). “The People”, p.183, New York : D. Appleton ; Philadelphia : G.S. Appleton ; Cincinnati : Derby, Bradley
“We cannot insist only on issues related to abortion, gay marriage and the use of contraceptive methods. The teaching of the church is clear, and I am a son of the church, but it is not necessary to talk about these issues all the time.”
“Right now, we have no possibility of politics because we have a one-party state.”
“The Department of Education should not be producing paid political advertising for the president, it should be helping us to produce smarter students.”
“.. an emergency stash of Thin Mints. Frickin' Girl Scouts. Those things were way to addictive. They had to be laced with crack." Charlie Davidson Fourth Grave Beneath my Feet”
“Your breath upon the wind shall surely lodge within some breast. Ask not whose breast it is. See only that the breath itself be pure.”

Source : Mikhail Naimy (2011). “The Book of Mirdad: The strange story of a monastery which was once called The Ark”, p.129, Duncan Baird Publishers

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