"People like head trauma. They love knockouts. The crowd is silent, silent, silent... and then a knockout happens, and everyone goes native. There would be far fewer knockouts without the gloves."

-- Jonathan Gottschall

#People Quotes #Would Be Quotes #Gloves Quotes

“I dont like the idea of spirituality done the way its done. The only way I could understand it was through creativity, not by going to an Ashram, or finding a guru or joining a temple. I made work out of it.”
“It may be that poetry makes life's nebulous events tangible to me and restores their detail; or conversely, that poetry brings forth the intangible quality of incidents which are all too concrete and circumstantial. Or each on specific occasions, or both all the time.”

Source : Frank O'Hara (1995). “The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara”, p.500, Univ of California Press
“The Big L was cold crazy, A top-notch crook snatchin pocket books from old ladies”
“A fist in the face is all you deserve from love you've misplaced.”
“Thanks to those pesky laws of physics, when things aren't sustainable, they stop.”
“The Greek word for idiot, literally translated, means one who does not participate in politics. That sums up my conviction on the subject.”
“I am not alone in thinking that we are at a tipping point ecologically and morally and politically. Democracy cannot survive without a vibrant middle class, yet the policies of one of the parties has been committed to wiping it out for 30 years.”

Source : "Harlan Fiske Stone, Pillar of the Law" by Alpheus Thomas Mason, (p. 95), 1956.
“I don't know where the shape of a poem comes from. I certainly don't impose it. I write out of a jumble of emotions and vague notions and scraps of knowledge. At some stage a form or, rather, a shape mysteriously emerges.”

Source : Source: www.poetrymagazines.org.uk

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