Top 13 Jerome Rothenberg Quotes
#1. L'homme qui a un peu use ses e motions est plus presse de plaire que d'aimer. The person who has used his emotions even a little is more anxious to please than to love.
Sydney Samuelson
#2. As for poetry 'belonging' in the classroom, it's like the way they taught us sex in those old hygiene classes: not performance but semiotics. If it I had taken Hygiene 71 seriously, I would have become a monk; & if I had taken college English seriously, I would have become an accountant.
Jerome Rothenberg
#3. Wisdom I know is social. She seeks her fellows. But Beauty is jealous, and illy bears the presence of a rival.
Thomas Jefferson
#4. Better to have fewer wants than greater riches to supply increasing wants.
Augustine Of Hippo
#6. The bottom line is this. When it comes to preventing violent extremism and terrorism in the United States, Muslim Americans are not part of the problem, you're part of the solution.
Denis McDonough
#7. The dramatic arises out of the margin of opaqueness between a writer and his personages, out of the potential for the unexpected. In the full dramatic character lurks the unforeseen possibility, the gift of disorder.
George Steiner
#8. In a dead religion there are no more heresies.
Andre Suares
#9. You only do what is in accordance with your self-image. If you consider yourself shy, you won't be able to start a conversation with a stranger. If you consider yourself a slow learner, you won't think of applying to the top college.
Michal Stawicki
#10. I am aware that what
the body does for love
is sometimes not.
I celebrate reversals.
I watch a funeral
somewhere at sea.
Jerome Rothenberg
#11. Follow your genius closely enough, and it will not fail to show you a fresh prospect every hour.
Henry David Thoreau
#12. The United Nations should become a proactive agent in the dissemination of democratic principles.
Michelle Bachelet
#13. There were some so afraid of death that they prayed for death.
Pliny The Younger
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