"... poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence. It forms the quality of the light within which we predicate our hopes and dreams toward survival and change, first made into language, then into idea, then into more tangible action. Poetry is the way we help give name to the nameless so it can be thought. The farthest horizons of our hopes and fears are cobbled by our poems, carved from the rock experiences of our daily lives."

-- Audre Lorde

#Dream Quotes #Light Quotes #Rocks Quotes

“The Founders who crafted our Constitution and Bill of Rights were careful to draft a Constitution of limited powers - one that would protect Americans' liberty at all times - both in war, and in peace.”
“I have personal beliefs and they are sometimes reflected in the movies I make, but I also reflect other points of view.”
“Objectivity is a subject's delusion that observing can be done without him”

Source : "The Certainty of Uncertainty: Dialogues Introducing Constructivis" by Bernhard Poerksen, (p. 3), 2004.
“If you start responding to every stimulus, then you end up as a nerve gas case, quite literally. Neurons fire at once.”

Source : Hollis Frampton, Bruce Jenkins (2009). “On the Camera Arts and Consecutive Matters: The Writings of Hollis Frampton”, p.243, MIT Press
“I wonder if you are ashamed of calling a Democratically elected government a fascist government.”

Source : "Tucker" with Tucker Carlson, www.nbcnews.com. May 29, 2007.
“Both our senses and our passions are a supply to the imperfection of our nature; thus they show that we are such sort of creatures as to stand in need of those helps which higher orders of creatures do not.”

Source : Joseph Butler (1839). “The Whole Works of Joseph Butler ...”
“I don't use many apps. I use naps.”
“I don't have Facebook or Twitter accounts yet. Being a compulsive storyteller, I always make up for myself discouraging stories about how such accounts will get me into embarrassing and time-consuming situations.”

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