Quotes about t
time
Time cleanses what it touches over time. Aeschylus
thank-you ties guests
Pleasantest of all ties is the tie of host and guest.
tongue
A great ox stands on my tongue.
teacher acceptance moderation
If you will take me as your teacher, you will not kick against the pricks.
time aging all-things
Time in his aging overtakes all things alike.
time hunting growing
But time growing old teaches all things.
time time-management all-things
Time brings all things to pass.
trust spring heart
In every tyrant's heart there springs in the end this poison, that he cannot trust a friend.
tongue stranger slander
The tongue of slander is too prompt with wanton malice to wound the stranger.
thinking world academic
I think poets should work in the non-literary, non-academic world, get to know more than a workshop or a university. Adrienne Rich
thinking bridges space
I am always interested in the ways of scoring the sound of the poem, especially a poem with long lines. Spaces within a line, double colons, slashes, are indications of pause, of breath, of urgency, they are not metrically exact as in a musical notation but they serve (I hope) to make the reader think about the sound of the poem - just as traffic symbols, when driving, make us almost unconsciously aware of a steep hill, an intersection, an icy bridge etc.
twilight long nineteen
The vixen I met at twilight on Route 5 south of Willoughby: long dead. She was an omen to me, surviving, herding her cubs in the silvery bend of the road in nineteen sixty-five.
two east phrases
The difficulty of saying I-a phrase from the East German novelist Christa Wolf. But once having said it, as we realize the necessity to go further, isn't there a difficulty of saying 'we'? You cannot speak for me. I cannot speak for you. Two thoughts: there is no liberation that only knows how to say 'I'; there is no collective movement that speaks for each of us all the way through.
time years missing
Since we're not young, weeks have to do time for years of missing each other.Yet only this odd warp in time tells me we're not young.
teacher mirrors world
When someone, let's say a teacher, speaks of the world and you are not in it, it's like looking into the mirror and seeing nothing.
tvs television kind
TV has created a kind of false collectivity.
thinking health-education poetry
I do not think [poetry] is more, or less, necessary than food, shelter, health, education, decent working conditions. It is as necessary.
teacher psychics mirrors
When someone with the authority of a teacher describes the world and you’re not in it, there’s a moment of psychic disequilibrium, as if you looked into a mirror and saw nothing.
truth integrity liars
Lying is done with words and also with silence.
thinking one-direction rivers
If you think you can grasp me, think again: my story flows in more than one direction, a delta springing from the river bed with its five fingers spread.
truth want-something speak
The unconscious wants truth. It ceases to speak to those who want something else more than truth.
truth-is complexity one-thing
There is no 'the truth,' 'a truth'--truth is not one thing, or even a system. It is an increasing complexity.
thinking two people
The more I live, the more I think, two people together is a miracle.
two giving body
Probably there is nothing in human nature more resonant with charges than the flow of energy between two biologically alike bodies, one of which has lain in amniotic bliss inside the other, one of which has labored to give birth to the other. The materials are here for the deepest mutuality and the most painful estrangement.
threat invitations
Change is not a threat to your life, but an invitation to live.
teacher mirrors individual-strength
When someone with the authority of a teacher, say, describes the world and you are not in it, there is a moment of psychic disequilibrium, as if you looked into a mirror and saw nothing. Yet you know you exist and others like you, that this is a game with mirrors. It takes some strength of soul--and not just individual strength, but collective understanding--to resist this void, this nonbeing, into which are thrust, and to stand up, demanding to be seen and heard.
tired reality important
Liking is more important than loving. It lasts. I want what is between us to last, Luke. I don't want us just to love each other and marry and get tired of each other and then want to marry some one else." "Oh! my dear Love, I know. You want reality. So do I. What's between us will last for ever because it's founded on reality. Agatha Christie
taken believe world
Oh, I'm not afraid of death! What have I got to live for after all? I suppose you believe it's very wrong to kill a person who has injured you-even if they've taken away everything you had in the world?
things-in-life suffering someone-you-love
The saddest thing in life and the hardest to live through, is the knowledge that there is someone you love very much whom you cannot save from suffering.
thinking hercule-poirot ifs
If you are to be Hercule Poirot, you must think of everything.
typewriters agony feelings
There's no agony like [getting started]. You sit in a room, biting pencils, looking at a typewriter, walking about, or casting yourself down on a sofa, feeling you want to cry your head off.
truth design woven
Truth, however bitter, can be accepted, and woven into a design for living.
tables sitting distinction
At the small table, sitting very upright, was one of the ugliest old ladies he had ever seen. It was an ugliness of distinction - it fascinated rather than repelled.