"The poet's spoken discourse often depends on a mystique, on the spiritual freedom that finds itself enslaved on earth."

-- Salvatore Quasimodo

#Spiritual Quotes #Earth Quotes #Poetic Quotes

“For ever so our thoughtful hearts repeatOn fields of triumph dirges of defeat;And still we turn on gala-days to treadAmong the rustling memories of the dead.”
“If the Southeast represents the new battlefield in the war on meth, then Tennessee clearly is at ground zero.”
“The soul was never put in the body to stand still.”
“As our country bled . . . its leader's wife came to this podium piously to call for a new human order, this when thousands of Filipinos were political prisoners.”
“Heterosexuals get drunk and pregnant, producing unwanted children; their reward is to be allowed to marry. Homosexual couples do not produce unwanted children; their reward is to be denied the right to marry. Go figure.”

Source : "Hero Federal Appeals Judge Burns Down the Case Against Gay Marriage" by Michelle Dean, gawker.com. September 5, 2014.
“For many of us, clean water is so plentiful and readily available that we rarely, if ever, pause to consider what life would be like without it.”
“People often ask me how long it takes me to write a play, and I tell them 'all of my life.'”

Source : Edward Albee (2009). “Stretching My Mind: The Collected Essays of Edward Albee”, p.165, Da Capo Press
“Poetry wants to make things mean more than they mean, says someone, as if we knew how much things meant, and in what unit of measure.”

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