astronaut, poet, Quotes for Now
Category: poet
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In Memory: “Take a walk on a summer night, look up at the moon, and think of us. A part of us is still there and always will be.”
“He repeated until his dying day that there was no one with more common sense, no stone cutter more obstinate, no manager more lucid or dangerous, than a poet.”
“Clarity of language is the first casualty of authoritarianism.”
[poetry] “sends you back up the page as much as it sends you forward.”
“Let us try for once not to be right.“
“The magician and the politician have much in common: they both have to draw our attention away from what they are really doing.”
“If I was a painter … I don’t paint the chair, I would paint feelings about the chair.”
“ did anyone ever step twice into the same book?”
