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«There's a graveyard in northern France where all the dead boys from D-Day are buried. The white crosses reach from one horizon to the other. I remember looking it over and thinking it was a forest of graves. But the rows were like this, dizzying, diagonal, perfectly straight, so after all it wasn't a forest but an orchard of graves. Nothing to do with nature, unless you count human nature.»
«...colleges being nothing but grooming schools for the middleclass non-identity which usually finds its perfect expression on the outskirts of the campus in rows of well-to-do houses with lawns and television sets is each living room with everybody looking at the same thing and thinking the same thing at the same time while the Japhies of the world go prowling in the wilderness...»
Author: Jack Kerouac
(Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
campus, campuses, colleges, groom, groomed, grooming, grooms, houses, identity, lawns, living room, outskirts, prowl, prowling, prowls, rooming house, rows, schools, sets, television set, the Wilderness, well-to-do, wilderness
«The force of what was called Panther rhetoric or word mongering resided not in elegant discourse but in strength of affirmation (or denial), in anger of tone and timbre. When the anger led to action there was no turgidity or over-emphasis. Anyone who has witnessed political rows among the Whites will have to admit that the Whites aren't overburdened with poetic imagination.»
Author: Jean Genet
(Dramatist, Novelist)
| Keywords:
affirmation, discourse, emphasis, overburden, overburdened, panther, Panthers, poetic, resided, rhetoric, rows, timbre, turgidity, witnessed
«And thou shalt set in it settings of stones, even four rows of stones: the first row shall be a sardius, a topaz, and a carbuncle: this shall be the first row.»
«And under it was the similitude of oxen, which did compass it round about: ten in a cubit, compassing the sea round about. Two rows of oxen were cast, when it was cast.»
«He built also the house of the forest of Lebanon; the length thereof was an hundred cubits, and the breadth thereof fifty cubits, and the height thereof thirty cubits, upon four rows of cedar pillars, with cedar beams upon the pillars.»
Author: Bible
| Keywords:
beams, cedar, Cedars of Lebanon, cubits, Four Pillars, Lebanon, pillars, rows
«Water has an endless horizon; there is no limitation when you look out into the water. There's nothing to interfere with the mind's eye projecting itself as far as it can possibly imagine. I suppose it's the same way people in the Midwest feel about watching amber waves of grain or endless rows of cornfields. There is something exhilarating about it.»
Author: Billy Joel
(Pianist, Singer, Song Writer)
| Keywords:
amber, As Far, cornfield, cornfields, endless, grain, horizon, interfere, limitation, look out, Midwest, No Wave, possibly, projecting, rows, waves
«When one rows, it is not the rowing which moves the ship: rowing is only a magical ceremony by means of which one compels a demon to move the ship.»
«A teacher who can arouse a feeling for one single good action, for one single good poem, accomplishes more than he who fills our memory with rows and rows of natural objects, classified with name and form»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Teachers and teaching
| Keywords:
accomplishes, arouse, arousing, classified, classify, fills, for one, Good poem, natural action, objects, poem, rowed, rows
