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Floyd Skloot Quote: “Though my poems are about evenly…”

Though my poems are about evenly split between traditionally formal work that uses rhyme and meter and classical structure, and work that is freer, I feel that the music of language remains at the core of it all. Sound, rhythm, repetition, compression – these elements of my poetry are also elements of my prose.

November 24, 2019 1947, American, Floyd Skloot, Quotes by Poets

Donald Hall Quote: “However alert we are, antiquity remains…”

However alert we are, antiquity remains an unknown, unanticipated galaxy.

October 20, 2019 1928, American, Donald Hall, Quotes by Poets, September 20

Martin Heidegger Quote: “Man acts as though he were…”

Man acts as though he were the shaper and master of language, while in fact language remains the master of man.

September 29, 2019 1889, German, Martin Heidegger, Quotes by Philosophers, September 26

Floyd Skloot Quote: “I’m a writer who simply can’t…”

I’m a writer who simply can’t know what I’m writing about until the writing lets me discover it. In a sense, my writing process embraces the gapped nature of my memory process, leaping across spaces that represent all I’ve lost and establishing fresh patterns within all that remains.

September 27, 2019 1947, American, Floyd Skloot, Quotes by Poets

Ariel Sharon Quote: “My first love was, and remains…”

My first love was, and remains, manual labor; sowing and harvesting, the pastures, the flock, and the cattle.

September 26, 2019 1928, Ariel Sharon, February 27, Israeli, Quotes by Leaders

Samuel Alexander Quote: “Desire then is the invasion of…”

Desire then is the invasion of the whole self by the wish, which, as it invades, sets going more and more of the psychical processes; but at the same time, so long as it remains desire, does not succeed in getting possession of the self.

September 20, 2019 1859, Australian, January 6, Quotes by Philosophers, Samuel Alexander

Friedrich Nietzsche Quote: “God is dead. God remains dead….”

God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. Yet his shadow still looms. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives; who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves?

September 17, 2019 1844, Friedrich Nietzsche, German, October 15, Quotes by Philosophers

Diane Ackerman Quote: “Hurricane season brings a humbling reminder…”

Hurricane season brings a humbling reminder that, despite our technologies, most of nature remains unpredictable.

August 30, 2019 1948, American, Diane Ackerman, October 7, Quotes by Poets

John Boyle O’Reilly Quote: “Putting prize-fighting altogether aside as one…”

Putting prize-fighting altogether aside as one of the unavoidable evils attending on this manly exercise, the inestimable value of boxing as a training, discipline, and development of boys and young men remains.

August 15, 2019 1844, Irish, John Boyle O'Reilly, June 28, Quotes by Poets

Antonio Porchia Quote: “He who does not fill his…”

He who does not fill his world with phantoms remains alone.

August 2, 2019 1886, Antonio Porchia, Italian, November 13, Quotes by Poets

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