"What is last year's snow to me, Last year's anything? The tree Budding yearly must forget How its past arose or set"

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Source : Countee Cullen (2013). “Countee Cullen: Collected Poems: (American Poets Project #32)”, p.64, Library of America

Countee Cullen

#Past Quotes #Snow Quotes #Tree Quotes

“Don't be fooled by my beauty - the light of my face comes from the candle of my spirit.”
“But human nature cannot be content on a diet of honey and if there is nothing in one's life that requires pity, one must invent it; for to go through life unpitied would be an unthinkable loss.”

Source : Angela Thirkell (1968). “The Brandons, and others”, Hamish Hamilton
“Official truth is not actual truth.”
“I've always said and I'd be one of the first people to admit; I think there are literally thousands of actors out there more talented than I am by a country mile. I've just been fortunate enough to be in the right place at the right time, and I guess I had the right look.”

Source : Source: www.ign.com
“The dream is damned and dreamer too if dreaming's all that dreamers do.”

Source : "Interview: Rory Miller, Detentions Specialist and Conflict Expert". Video Q&A, www.ikigaiway.com. June 18, 2013.
“I think if we ever reach the point where we think we thoroughly understand who we are and where we came from, we will have failed.”
“Milton saw not, and Beethoven heard not, but the sense of beauty was upon them, and they fain must speak.”
“It is necessary that I am viewed as a product. I am a product.”

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