#resent

The form of my poem rises out of a past that so overwhelms the present with its worth and vision that I'm at a loss to explain my delusion that there exist any real links between that past and a future worthy of it. ↗

— Hart Crane

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It's as though all the terms of a family were present at one time rather than his dad and his mum. Not just a present authority, but the resident memory of what qualifies what else is the case. ↗

— Robert Creeley

#case #dad #else #family #his

I frequently hear our present period described as uncertain, confused, chaotic. ↗

— George Crumb

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Nonetheless, I sense that it will be the task of the future to somehow synthesize the sheer diversity of our present resources into a more organic and well-ordered procedure. ↗

— George Crumb

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The future will be the child of the past and the present, even if a rebellious child. ↗

— George Crumb

#even #future #past #present #rebellious

The purpose of narrative is to present us with complexity and ambiguity. ↗

— Scott Turow

#complexity #narrative #present #purpose #us

You must realize that honorary degrees are given generally to people whose SAT scores were too low to get them into schools the regular way. As a matter of fact, it was my SAT scores that led me into my present vocation in life, comedy. ↗

— Neil Simon

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There is in my opinion a great similarity between the problems provided by the mysterious behavior of the atom and those provided by the present economic paradoxes confronting the world. ↗

— Paul Dirac

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We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future. ↗

— Frederick Douglass

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My father had the same name as me but he was known as Alec. He was a member of the House of Representatives. ↗

— Alexander Downer

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