Kathleen Raine Quotes

... the poem reminds us of what we ourselves know, but did not know we knew; reminds us, above all, of what we are.

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• If I hear a lie in my life with my children, with my wife, my work, my audiences, I want to annihilate myself, vaporize myself and wipe myself off the face of the earth.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Life
  • Work
  • Children

• I write songs about things that I'm simultaneously trying to not think about.

  

  Warren Zevon
  • Trying

• Laws must be clear, precise, and uniform for all citizens.

  

  Marquis de Lafayette

• If you want a strong society, it has to be inclusive. If you have to push a boulder up a hill, do you want 10 people or 100? If you weed out colour or gender, you get 10.

  

  Cyndi Lauper Blue Angel
  • People
  • Up
  • Society

• It dawned on me, the enormity of my situation. I was, in fact, the catalyst for it all. That feeling has stayed with me ever since.

  

  Lonnie Donegan
  • Feeling
  • Situation
  • Catalyst

• I don't believe in luck. ... It's persistence, hard work, and not forgetting your dream.

  

  Janet Jackson
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Dream

• We can all be more consistently involved in missionary work by replacing our fear with real faith.

  

  M. Russell Ballard
  • Work
  • Real
  • Fear

• I like most kinds of music. So I haven't got a bag, as they say... except the big black one in the hall outside.

  

  Paul McCartney The Beatles
  • Music
  • Black
  • Kind

• Our choices determine our destiny

  

  A. R. Bernard
  • Choices
  • Destiny
  • Determine

• Music is at once the product of feeling and knowledge, for it requires from its disciples, composers and performers alike, not only talent and enthusiasm, but also that knowledge and perception which are the result of protracted study and reflection.

  

  Alban Berg
  • Music
  • Feeling
  • Knowledge

• The FDA has formed a rapid response team.

  

  Andrew von Eschenbach
  • Team
  • Response
  • FDA

• J. Edgar Hoover: When morals decline and good men do nothing, evil flourishes. A society unwilling to learn from past is doomed. We must never forget our history.

  

  J. Edgar Hoover
  • Good
  • Men
  • History

• Prism! Where is that baby?

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Baby
  • Prism

• As for being a voice in politics, I feel whether you are famous or not, busy or not, it's incumbent upon every citizen to participate in this government in any way we can.

  

  Elayne Boosler
  • Government
  • Politics
  • Famous

• Everyone faces defeat. It may be a stepping-stone or a stumbling block, depending on the mental attitude with which it is faced.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • May
  • Attitude
  • Defeat

• I think people, especially the press, like to pick on children of famous people and I think that's fucking awful. Things get made up. It's so, so sad. And there's absolutely nothing you can do about it as a 16-year-old. You're like, Why? What did I do?

  

  Dakota Johnson
  • People
  • Up
  • Thinking

• The psychedelic mind is a higher dimensional mind, it is not fit for three dimensional space time.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Mind
  • Space
  • Fit

• Oh, never and forever aren't for mortals, love. But we won't be parted till I know it's right that we part.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Forever
  • Knows
  • Saying Goodbye

• As actors, we have the opportunity to work with many directors. Directors only work with themselves and other actors. They never know what it is like to work with another director. So that relationship that one has with a director is entirely always the king.

  

  Tom Hardy
  • Opportunity
  • Knows
  • Actors

• ... the poem reminds us of what we ourselves know, but did not know we knew; reminds us, above all, of what we are.

  

  Kathleen Raine
  • Knows
  • Reminds