The World Motivation
Was it my time for writing poems about McCarthy or my time for sending out fresh salmon or the time of playing happy telephone or my time for dictating memoranda about what's wrong with America?... or my time for crying.
“Was it my time for writing poems about McCarthy or my time for sending out fresh salmon or the time of playing happy telephone or my time for dictating memoranda about what's wrong with America?... or my time for crying.”
— Theodore Roethke · Time
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“Was it my time for writing poems about McCarthy or my time for sending out fresh salmon or the time of playing happy telephone or my time for dictating memoranda about what's wrong with America?... or my time for crying.”
“I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.”
“In spite of all the paraphernalia for keeping things together, how haphazard life is, and the judgments of time.”
“A lively understandable spirit Once entertained you. It will come again. Be still. Wait.”
“For I believe the spiritual combat to be more desperate in the center of chaos, which is Detroit.”
“Art is the means we have of undoing the damage of haste. It's what everything else isn't.”
“Healing is elusive when love”
“Vladimir: That passed the time.”
“Reject when they offer what you don't want... and use that time as an opportunity to ask for what you really want instead.”
“You see, Valentin, there is no such thing as time. It's just a road, a path to travel on. Most of the world is on a train, traveling forward all the time, speeding toward death, with a set schedule and someone else in charge.”
“Time flows in strange ways on Sundays, and sights become mysteriously distorted.”
“Even a broken clock is right twice a day.”