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“I'm glad I want everything in the world - good and bad - bitter and sweet - I want it all.”

World Want Desire Sweet Glad Bitter Good And Bad Briars

Book:Lovingly, Georgia: The Complete Correspondence of Georgia O'Keeffe and Anita Pollitzer

Source: Lovingly, Georgia: The Complete Correspondence of Georgia O'Keeffe and Anita Pollitzer

“I've wandered over many lands, and reaped withal no fruit, I've laid my pride of rank aside, and pressed my baffled suit, At stranger boards, like shameless crow, I've eaten bitter bread, But fierce Desire, that raging fire, still clamours to be fed.”

Stills Desire Fire Land Pride Fruit Stranger Rage Bread Bitter Suits Boards Feds Fierce Crow Shameless Baffled Clamour

Author:Bhartrhari

“Everything desires not like but unlike: for example, the dry desires the moist, the cold the hot, the bitter the sweet, the sharp the blunt, the void the full, the full the void, and so of all other things; for the opposite is the food of the opposite, whereas like receives like receives nothing from like.”

Desire Example Sweet Cold Opposites Hot Bitter Dry Void Blunt

Book:The Complete Plato

Source: The Complete Plato

“We must face the bitter fact that we have forsaken our great dream of a life of, for, and by the people; that the burning passions and ideals of the American dream lie congealed by cold cynicism. Great parts of the masses of our people no longer believe that they have a voice or a hand in shaping the destiny of this nation. They have not forsaken democracy because of any desire or positive action of their own; they have been driven down into the depths of a great despair born of frustration, hopelessness, and apathy. A democracy lacking in popular participation dies of paralysis.”

“That nervous energy that makes people like you and I want and go after everything in the world - bump our heads on all the hard walls and scratch our hands on all the briars - but it makes living great - doesn't it - I'm glad I want everything in the world - good and bad - bitter and sweet - I want it all and a lot of it too”

Source: Lovingly, Georgia: The Complete Correspondence of Georgia O'Keeffe and Anita Pollitzer

“It is easy for desire to be caught like a bird in a net, its wings fouled and twisted, no longer free to cross back and forth between silence and word. Desire may also find itself so amputated by tradition and community that it wanders in a void with nothing to orient it, to shape or discipline it. Desire must find ways to navigate its bitter and sweet paradox: it moves toward but also always through and beyond every object.”

Way May Moving Desire Easy Community Silence Objects Sweet Discipline Shapes Bird Tradition Crosses Wings Caught Bitter Wander Paradox Void Twisted Back And Forth Navigate

Author:Wendy Farley

“... we condone the most bitter and vindictive intolerance from a desire to appear tolerant, and run to prove that badness is not as bad as it seems, by pointing out that goodness is not so good as it looks.”

Looks Seems Running Desire Prove Goodness Bitter Intolerance Pointing Badness Vindictive

Author:J. E. Buckrose