"Rub a half potato on your wart and wrap it in a damp cloth. Close your eyes and whirl three times and throw. Then bury rag and spud exactly where they fall."

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Source : Richard Hugo, Ripley S. Hugo (1992). “The Real West Marginal Way: A Poet's Autobiography”, p.169, W. W. Norton & Company

Richard Hugo

#Fall Quotes #Eye Quotes #Half Quotes

“Iraq was invaded to secure Israel and everybody knows it.”
“I'm a little concerned about this notion everybody wants us to be objective.”

Source : KETV NewsWatch 7 Interview, quoted in The Omaha Channel article, October 19, 2004.
“Prayer is converse with God, equal honor with the Angels, progress in good things, averting of evils, righting of sinners.”
“Home in her apartment she'd dwell 'til the man from her dreams comes to break the spell.”
“When I get called in for stuff for Hollywood, I get to be the best friend of the Caucasian leadIf I want to play the main guy, I have found, I have to write it.”

Source : "All About the Hamiltons" by Rebecca Mead, www.newyorker.com. February 9, 2015.
“The teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to observe natural phenomena. The teacher must understand and feel her position of observer: the activity must lie in the phenomenon.”
“All the seasons run their race In this quiet resting-place; Peach, and apricot, and fig Here will ripen, and grow big; Here is store and overplus - More had not Alcinous!”

Source : Henry Austin Dobson, “A Garden Song”
“I make music for the hips, not the head.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quote, www.imdb.com.

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