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

• Abstract anger is great for rhetorical carrying on. You can go on endlessly about the post office, but it doesn't mean you're mad at your mailman.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Great
  • You
  • Mad

• 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

• I think a captain is someone who captains on the cricket field but, most of the leadership that happens is off the cricket field. It's very easy to captain people on the cricket field, but if you can start leading them off the cricket field, and show them that trust, what you have in them.

  

  Gautam Gambhir
  • People
  • Trust
  • Leadership

• '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

• The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behavior control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers.

  

  Lewis Thomas
  • Science
  • Control
  • Poetry

• 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

• Styx and The Stones may break my bones but 'More than Words' will never hurt me.

  

  Chuck Klosterman
  • May
  • Words
  • Hurt

• I’m sure you have heard it said that appearance does not matter so much, and that it is what's on the inside that counts. This is, of course, utter nonsense, because if it were true then people who were good on the inside would never have to comb their hair or take a bath, and the whole world would smell even worse than it already does. -Lemony Snicket

  

  Daniel Handler
  • People
  • World
  • Good

• Include me out.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • Me
  • Out
  • Include

• When I was a kid growing up, we had a cherry tree in the backyard, 100 years old. I climbed it, and it gave shade in the summertime and excellent cherries in the late summer. Having cherry blossoms around gives the best springtime vibe ever.

  

  Andrew Wyatt
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Summer

• But 'neath yon crimson tree Lover to listening maid might breathe his flame, Nor mark, within its roseate canopy, Her blush of maiden shame.

  

  William Cullen Bryant
  • Listening
  • Tree
  • Breathe

• 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