Kathleen Raine Quotes

And see the peaceful trees extend their myriad leaves in leisured dance- they bear the weight of sky and cloud upon the fountain of their veins.

Kathleen Raine

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• Elizabeth, Lady C, claims to be writing at the limits of language. Would it not be insulting to her if I were diligently to follow after her, explaining what she means but is not smart enough to say?

  

  J. M. Coetzee
  • Writing
  • She
  • Language

• Every single one of the guys that I've written songs about has been tracked down on MySpace by my fans.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Single
  • Fans
  • Down

• I don't mind doing the green-screen stuff at all, and in fact it's a lot like black-box theater, which I did plenty of in New York.

  

  Gabriel Macht
  • Mind
  • Black
  • Doing

• If you're not a competitor, you've just got to go home.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Home
  • You
  • Just

• I grew up in a small place and left it when I was quite young and entered the bigger world.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Up
  • World
  • Small

• The speed with which we in the Congress are going down is sometimes frightening. Government administration in the districts is rapidly reaching a low level. No strong opposition party has been able to emerge.

  

  Lal Bahadur Shastri
  • Strong
  • Party
  • Government

• Disconnection or alienation from the past has political consequences.

  

  Mal Peet
  • Political
  • Past
  • Alienation

• I am such a political person.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • Political
  • Person

• It doesn't help anybody to put out a bad script.

  

  Victoria Pratt
  • Bad
  • Help
  • Script

• 'Cause baby now we got bad blood.You know it used to be mad love.So take a look at what you've done.'Cause baby now we got bad blood.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Done
  • Bad
  • Baby

• I am not some sort of freak. I might be very good at chess but I'm just a normal person.

  

  Magnus Carlsen
  • Good
  • Chess

• We can see God's reflection in everything he created.

  

  Ben Carson
  • God
  • Reflection

• In the morning, when thou art sluggish at rousing thee, let this thought be present; 'I am rising to a man’s work.'

  

  Marcus Aurelius
  • Work
  • Art
  • Morning

• Plaudite, amici, comedia finita est. (Applaud, my friends, the comedy is over.)

  

  Ludwig van Beethoven
  • Friends
  • Comedy

• How was I supposed to know?She was slowly letting go?If I was puttin her through her hell,Hell I couldn't tell.She could've given me a sign,Could've opened up my eyes.How was I supposed to see?She never cried in front of me.

  

  Toby Keith
  • Up
  • She
  • Eyes

• In basketball, there's a lot of pushing, grabbing, and shoving going on that nobody else sees. That's why I'm training with MMA fighter Donald 'Cowboy' Cerrone.

  

  Blake Griffin
  • Why
  • Training
  • Basketball

• Terrorists, in ungoverned spaces, disseminate poisonous propaganda and training materials to attract troubled souls around the world to their cause.

  

  James Comey
  • World
  • Training

• I don't think I can plate-spin, I've turned loads of things down because I just can't get the time to do it.

  

  Bradley Walsh
  • Time

• We talk different languages, eat different foods, but all humanity has one ancestor, which started from one person, which started from one god.

  

  Ashraf Barhom
  • God
  • Different
  • Humanity

• I want tension in my business. Tension creates change. Change is necessary to evolve and prosper. I am never satisfied.

  

  Kenneth C. Griffin
  • Business

• I don't have to get myself pumped up or calm myself down. As we get into the later rounds of a tournament and there is more at stake, I have even more adrenaline. If we make the finals, it's just an extra opportunity to win a tournament at my age. That doesn't come along that often.

  

  Karch Kiraly
  • Age
  • Opportunity
  • Winning

• And they were canopied by the blue sky, So cloudless, clear, and purely beautifulThat God alone was to be seen in heaven.

  

  Lord Byron
  • God
  • Alone
  • Heaven

• On the screen I saw tanks rolling through dusty streets, and fallen buildings, and forests of unfamiliar trees into which East Pakistani refugees had fled, seeking safety over the Indian border.

  

  Jhumpa Lahiri
  • Tree
  • Safety
  • Building

• And see the peaceful trees extend their myriad leaves in leisured dance- they bear the weight of sky and cloud upon the fountain of their veins.

  

  Kathleen Raine
  • Tree
  • Sky
  • Clouds