"Poetry is the silence and speech between a wet struggling root of a flower and a sunlit blossom of that flower."

-- Carl Sandburg

#Struggle Quotes #Flower Quotes #Roots Quotes

“The most expensive part of building is the mistakes.”

Source : Ken Follett (2010). “The Pillars of the Earth”, p.487, Penguin
“Occasionally they came to villages, and at each village they encountered a roadblock of fallen trees. Having had centuries of experience with the smallpox virus, the village elders had instituted their own methods for controlling the virus, according to their received wisdom, which was to cut their villages off from the world, to protect their people from a raging plague. It was reverse quarantine, an ancient practice in Africa, where a village bars itself from strangers during a time of disease, and drives away outsiders who appear. (94)”
“Right here in our bodies, in our defense of our right to experience joy, in the refusal to abandon the place where we have been most completely invaded & colonized, in our determination to make the bombed & defoliated lands flower again and bear fruit, here where we have been most shamed is one of the most radical & sacred places from which to transform the world.”

Source : Aurora Levins Morales (1998). “Medicine Stories: History, Culture, and the Politics of Integrity”, p.119, South End Press
“Evolution has just been dealt its death blow. After reading Origins of Life with my background in chemistry and physics, it is clear that biological evolution could not have occurred.”
“If we want things to stay as they are, things will have to change.”

Source : The Leopard ch. 1 (1957) (translation by Archibald Colquhoun)
“The wrong sort of people are always in power because they would not be in power if they were not the wrong sort of people.”
“Too many managers manage by what the postgame press conference is going to be.”
“What is art? (...) Like a declaration of love: the consciousness of our dependence on each other. A confession. An unconscious act that none the less reflects the true meaning of lifeâ€”love and sacrifice.”

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