Thursday, October 13, 2011

Week #7--Junkyard Quotes


“As long as you have a kind of straight unequivocal immaculate version of things, then there can be no poetry and there can be no tension, no desire again. Desire makes itself felt when language comes alive." “the babbling of the waters”; The Murmuring Deep.
excerpts from Krista Tippet’s interview with Avivah Zornberg on onbeing.org. 10/7/11.

“You have two ears and one mouth so plan accordingly.”
From one of Garrison Keillor’s Lake Woebegone stories.

“When trees die, they don’t go to heaven—they remain on Earth.”
Olga Krankina, assoc. prof. of forest ecosystem science at Oregon State Univ. in National Wildlife magazine.

“It’s always hard to get off of five.”
Tennis players referring to the difficulty of winning the set once you get 5 games.


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