"The human creature is alone in his carapace. Poetry is a strong way out."

-- Stevie Smith

#Strong Quotes #Way Quotes #Poetry Is Quotes

“As I walked out one evening, Walking down Bristol Street, The crowds upon the pavement Were fields of harvest wheat. And down by the brimming river I heard a lover sing Under an arch of the railway: 'Love has no ending. 'I'll love you, dear, I'll love you Till China and Africa meet, And the river jumps over the mountain And the salmon sing in the street, 'I'll love you till the ocean Is folded and hung up to dry And the seven stars go squawking Like geese about the sky.”
“You can't teach colour from CÃ©zanne, you can only teach it from something like this bubble-gum wrapper.”
“Every campus, of course, also has its rabble of young "liberals," who are forever making a din as they "demonstrate" for "world peash," "snivel rights," and the like, and who, if we may judge from their appearance and their yammering, are as afraid of war as they are of soap. I am sure that every student here present fully understands the importance of staying on the good side of the young "intellectuals" -- I mean the windward side, of course.”

Source : "Can 'Liberals' be Educated?". National Vanguard, July 8, 2005.
“That lovely things exist is a lovely thought.”

Source : Robert Walser (1990). “Masquerade and other stories”, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
“It's not about finding out who you are, it's about creating who you are.”
“Brother will kill brother, spilling blood across the land”
“The laws that keep us safe, these same laws condemn us to boredom.”
“I don't get cast for every job and I understand that.”

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