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W. H. Auden Quote: “Art is our chief means of…”

Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead.

December 8, 2019 1907, English, February 21, Quotes by Poets, W. H. Auden

Karl Marx Quote: “Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like…”

Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.

December 3, 2019 1818, German, Karl Marx, May 5, Quotes by Philosophers

Federico Garcia Lorca Quote: “I was lucky enough to see…”

I was lucky enough to see with my own eyes the recent stock-market crash, where they lost several million dollars, a rabble of dead money that went sliding off into the sea.

December 3, 2019 1898, Federico Garcia Lorca, June 5, Quotes by Poets, Spanish

Thomas Carlyle Quote: “Speech is human, silence is divine…”

Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.

November 27, 2019 1795, December 4, Quotes by Philosophers, Scottish, Thomas Carlyle

Gil Scott-Heron Quote: “I have a novel that I…”

I have a novel that I can write. It’s about three soldiers from Somalia. Some babies have been disappearing up on 144th Street, and I speculate later on what happened to them and how they might have been got back. These guys are dead, all three, and they have a chance in the afterlife to do something they should have done when they were alive.

November 25, 2019 1949, American, April 1, Gil Scott-Heron, Quotes by Poets

Judith Butler Quote: “In the earliest years of the…”

In the earliest years of the AIDS crisis, there were many gay men who were unable to come out about the fact that their lovers were ill, A, and then dead, B. They were unable to get access to the hospital to see their lover, unable to call their parents and say, ‘I have just lost the love of my life.’

November 23, 2019 1956, American, February 24, Judith Butler, Quotes by Philosophers

Thomas Bailey Aldrich Quote: “The ocean moans over dead men’s…”

The ocean moans over dead men’s bones.

November 14, 2019 1836, American, November 11, Quotes by Poets, Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Ludwig Tieck Quote: “He is not dead who departs…”

He is not dead who departs from life with a high and noble fame; but he is dead, even while living, whose brow is branded with infamy.

October 27, 2019 1773, German, Ludwig Tieck, May 31, Quotes by Poets

Epictetus Quote: “Never in any case say I…”

Never in any case say I have lost such a thing, but I have returned it. Is your child dead? It is a return. Is your wife dead? It is a return. Are you deprived of your estate? Is not this also a return?

October 22, 2019 55, Epictetus, Greek, Quotes by Philosophers

Patrick Kavanagh Quote: “There is nothing as dead and…”

There is nothing as dead and as damned as an important thing. The things that really matter are casual, insignificant little things.

October 10, 2019 1904, Irish, October 21, Patrick Kavanagh, Quotes by Poets

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