#read

Language is remarkable, except under the extreme constraints of mathematics and logic, it never can talk only about what it's supposed to talk about but is always spreading around. ↗

— Howard Nemerov

#always #around #constraints #except #extreme

I do insist on making what I hope is sense so there's always a coherent narrative or argument that the reader can follow. ↗

— Howard Nemerov

#argument #coherent #follow #hope #i

I've never read a political poem that's accomplished anything. Poetry makes things happen, but rarely what the poet wants. ↗

— Howard Nemerov

#anything #happen #i #makes #never

The abdomen is the reason why man does not readily take himself to be a god. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#god #himself #man #readily #reason

It bothers me to read the comments of leaders of the Hamas and others who hate America that their goal is to have more weaponry capable of delivering all types of weapons of mass destruction. ↗

— Don Nickles

#bothers #capable #comments #delivering #destruction

The fact that I was fortunate enough to escape contagion, in spite of frequent, sometimes daily contacts with the disease, was because I soon guessed how it spread. ↗

— Charles Jules Henry Nicole

#contacts #contagion #daily #disease #enough

Hubble is very close to my heart, and going back to Hubble, because I was there once already in 1993, is really a great privilege for me. ↗

— Claude Nicollier

#back #because #close #going #great

I trained with the FBI in Portland and I also had many conversations with female FBI agents in Los Angeles, as well. That was again something that also came in very handy for Basic, because I'd learned already how to handle a gun and how to behave just physically when you're in a situation, a threat. That was very good to know. ↗

— Connie Nielsen

#agents #already #also #angeles #basic

It is impossible to suffer without making someone pay for it; every complaint already contains revenge. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#complaint #contains #every #impossible #making

The word "Christianity" is already a misunderstanding - in reality there has been only one Christian, and he died on the Cross. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#been #christian #christianity #cross #died