"The modern sensibility attempts to drain the contents of experience; these Greek poets strive to state the fact so poignantly that it becomes an ever-flowing spring as Sappho says, "More real than real, more gold than gold."

-- Kenneth Rexroth

#Spring Quotes #Real Quotes #Greek Quotes

“I wasn't ever good enough to be on the baseball team and that sort of stuff.”
“I started in theatre. I was at Cleveland and I went to London for the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's birth.”
“Golf is not a wrestle with Bogey; it is not a struggle with your mortal foe; it is a physiological, psychological and moral fight with your self; it is a test of mastery over self; and the ultimate and irreducible element of the game is to determine which of the players is the more worthy combatant.”

Source : Arnold Haultain (1912). “The Mystery of Golf”
“What a state of society is this in which freethinker is a term of abuse, and in which doubt is regarded as sin?”

Source : William Winwood Reade (1892). “The Martyrdom of Man”
“The greatest need of my people is my own holiness.”
“Guy don't need no sense to be a nice fella. Seems to me sometimes it jus' works the other way around. Take a real smart guy and he ain't hardly ever a nice fella.”
“He who frames the question wins the debate.”
“There are no dumb questions?only dumb answers.”

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