Charles Reznikoff quotes

“The fingers of your thoughts are molding your face ceaselessly.”
-- Charles Reznikoff

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“The miracle, of course, was not that the oil for the sacred light - in a little cruse - lasted as long as they say; but that the courage of the Maccabees lasted to this day: let that nourish my flickering spirit.”
-- Charles Reznikoff

Source : Charles Reznikoff, Seamus Cooney (2005). “The Poems of Charles Reznikoff: 1918-1975”, p.226, David R. Godine Publisher

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“Among the heaps of brick and plaster lies/ a girder, still itself among the rubbish”
-- Charles Reznikoff

Source : Charles Reznikoff, Seamus Cooney (2005). “The Poems of Charles Reznikoff: 1918-1975”, p.107, David R. Godine Publisher

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“The street curves in and out, up and down in great waves of asphalt; at night the granite tomb is noisy with starlings like the creaking of many axles; only the tired walker know how much there is to climb, how the sidewalk curves into the cold wind.”
-- Charles Reznikoff

Source : Charles Reznikoff, Seamus Cooney (2005). “The Poems of Charles Reznikoff: 1918-1975”, p.157, David R. Godine Publisher

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“I will walk by myself and cure myself in the sunshine and the wind.”
-- Charles Reznikoff

Source : Charles Reznikoff, Seamus Cooney (2005). “The Poems of Charles Reznikoff: 1918-1975”, p.186, David R. Godine Publisher

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“Our constitution, in short, is a judge-made constitution, and it bears on its face all the features, good and bad, of judge-made law.”

Source : A.V. Dicey, J.W.F. Allison (2013). “The Law of the Constitution”, p.230, Oxford University Press

“Let's face it, space is a risky business. I always considered every launch a barely controlled explosion.”

“Don't be afraid to fall flat on your face.”

Source : Eddy Arnold (1969). “It's a Long Way from Chester County”

“You look like Curran. You have that pissy exasperated look on your face.”

“Your pretty empire took so long to build, now, with a snap of history's fingers, down it goes.”

“You should not be misled about the so-called single opposition candidate. There are so many of them now that you will lack the fingers to count them.”

“I have terrible handwriting. I now say it's a learning disability... but a nun who was a very troubled woman hit me over the fingers with a ruler because my writing was so bad.”

“We put boogers on our fingers, then shake your hand.”

“History is a story written by the finger of God.”

“Time is a sandpile we run our fingers in.”