"Peter Conners stunning prose poems are packed with keen sensitivity, dreaminess, and wit. I love his time travels, the vibrant layering of image and detail. Try taking walks as you are reading this book- the dazzle of landscapes, inner and outer, feel replenished and rich. This is language and vision I want to come home to again and again."

-- Naomi Shihab Nye

#Reading Quotes #Home Quotes #Vision Quotes

“Did you measure to attain your height? Did you use geometry to radiate your limb? Did you lament storm-torn branches? Did you inventory your leaves for the sun? You did none of these things, yet man in his cleverness Cannot match your perfection.”
“Old age: The estuary that enlarges and spreads itself grandly as it pours into the Great Sea.”
“Society is a kind of parent to its members. If it, and they, are to thrive, its values must be clear, coherent and generally acceptable.”

Source : Milton R. Sapirstein (1955). “Paradoxes of Everyday Life: A Psychoanalyst's Interpretations”
“Slavish obedience to the clerics, who know how to squeeze every last drop of advantage out of religion, is killing our girls. We must speak-blaspheme, if necessary; be accused of being apostates, if that is what is required. Muslims are taught that Islam put an end to the Arabian practice of burying alive newborn baby girls because they were considered worthless and a burden, but as long as we stay quiet in the face of the abomination of child marriage, we are effectively burying our girls alive today.”
“There's only X amount of time. You can do whatever you want with that time. It's your time.”
“Politics don't exist, actually. It's just a cheap business. Economics is what makes politics.”

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“Art is like politics. Any theory carried too far ends in sterility, and freshness is only gained by following some other line.”

Source : Amy Lowell (1931). “Tendencies in Modern American Poetry”, p.6, Ardent Media
“The people who run the game, they are the ones who want to change it and make people believe that its different somehow. Its not different, the only difference is that some ballplayers today have a chance for a four- or five-year contract and they can make big money.”

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