#belong

Concrete poets continue to turn out beautiful things, but to me they're more visual than oral, and they almost really belong on the wall rather than in a book. I haven't the least idea of where poetry is going. ↗

— James Laughlin

#beautiful #beautiful things #belong #book #concrete

I'm a drifter and an outsider. There's not one single environment I can totally belong to. ↗

— Ang Lee

#environment #i #i can #outsider #single

This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#belongs #constitutional #constitutional right #country #exercise

Minor Threat was an important band, believe me that it was important it in my life, but it belongs to an era that no longer exists. I'm not nostalgic. I think music today is much more important, because something can be done about it. ↗

— Ian MacKaye

#band #because #believe #belongs #done

I'm happy to belong to this group of top champions having excelled here. ↗

— Hermann Maier

#champions #excelled #group #happy #having

The Earth does not belong to us: we belong to the Earth. ↗

— Marlee Matlin

#does #earth #us

I don't belong on this earth. I always feel out of place - like a visitor. ↗

— Hattie McDaniel

#belong #earth #feel #i #i always

Above all it is important to point out that we can only maintain our prosperity in Europe if we belong to the most innovative regions in the world. ↗

— Angela Merkel

#belong #europe #important #innovative #maintain

We talk about heaven being so far away. It is within speaking distance to those who belong there. Heaven is a prepared place for a prepared people. ↗

— Dwight L. Moody

#away #being #belong #distance #far

It's time for a recovery and reassessment of North American thinkers. Marshall McLuhan, Leslie Fiedler and Norman O. Brown are the linked triad I would substitute for Jacques Lacan, Jacques Derrida and Michel Foucault, whose work belongs to ravaged postwar Europe and whose ideas transfer poorly into the Anglo-American tradition. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#american tradition #belongs #brown #europe #i