"In the particular presence of memorable language we can find a reminder of our ability to know and retain knowledge itself: the brightness wherein all things come to see."

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Source : Robert Pinsky (2014). “The Sounds of Poetry: A Brief Guide”, p.116, Macmillan

Robert Pinsky

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“Decades go faster toward the end of a century.”

Source : Hortense Calisher (1983). “Mysteries of motion”, Doubleday
“The river , corrected the Rat, It's my world...What it hasn't got is not worth having...”
“Do not disturb yourself by picturing your life as a whole; do not assemble in your mind the many and varied troubles which have come to you in the past and will come again in the future, but ask yourself with regard to every present difficulty: 'What is there in this that is unbearable and beyond endurance?'”
“I'm a failure as a woman. My men expect so much of me, because of the image they've made of me- and that I've made of myself- as a sex symbol. They expect bells to ring and whistles to whistle, but my anatomy is the same as any other woman's and I can't live up to it.”
“We're swallowed up only when we are willing for it to happen.”
“I stay way from that area, and there's only so many songs you can write about love, sex and death.”
“Nobody has ever accused Donald Trump of lowering the temperature on anything - I don't think.”

Source : "Young Republican Roundtable: Shifting Views After Election Of Donald Trump". "Weekend Edition Sunday" with Rachel Martin, www.npr.org. November 13, 2016.
“Human experience throughout the ages has been enhanced through learning, information and communication.”

Source : Speech on the World Bank Video Series, Amman, Jordan, January 06, 2004.

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