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“As children, we come into the world with a natural desire to both speak and draw. Society makes sure that we learn language properly, right from the beginning, but art is treated as a gift of innate genius, something we either have or don't.”

World Children Art Desire Speak Language Natural Genius Draws Art Is Treated Innate

Book:Triskell Tales: Twenty-two Years of Chapbooks

Source: Triskell Tales: Twenty-two Years of Chapbooks

“What a rare joy it is to linger in the lucid, transcendent worlds of Jennifer Maier's poems. In taut, precise language and lapidary images, Now, Now explores myriad pathways of connection, the ways desire, longing, and imaginative possibility brush up against the everyday, revealing a keen, fiercely compassionate intelligence-a sensibility so finely attuned and so clearly in love with the world that you would follow it almost anywhere.”

World Way Joy Desire Language Possibility Connections Longing Everyday Compassionate Sensibility Precise Brushes Imaginative Revealing Pathways Transcendent Jennifer

Author:Rick Hilles

“I put myself in the student's place and remember the frustrations, doubts, determination, and desires I felt when I was going through the initial learning process. The things we now do automatically, such as perspective, pencil control, values and composition were as unfamiliar and intimidating as a foreign language.”

“A dead language is not only one no longer spoken or written, it is unyielding language content to admire its own paralysis. Like statist language, censored and censoring. Ruthless in its policing duties, it has no desire or purpose other than maintaining the free range of its own narcotic narcissism, its own exclusivity and dominance. However moribund, it is not without effect for it actively thwarts the intellect, stalls conscience, suppresses human potential. Unreceptive to interrogation, it cannot form or tolerate new ideas, shape other thoughts, tell another story, fill baffling silences.”

“What does purpose mean? It means the deepest desire for our short lives to mean something. . . . To speak a language of purpose is to return to first principles and to be able to answer, in plain English, the plain questions of Why? Why should we chip in to help someone else? Why should we defer gratification? Why should we care about the long term? Why should we trust anyone who seems to be limiting our ability to do what we want?”

Want Should Firsts Mean Long Doe Helping Seems Care Able Desire Purpose Speak Language Term Ability Answers Principles Return Intention Long Term Chips Gratification Short Life Plain English

Author:Eric Liu

“Brian Turner writes as only a soldier can, of terror and compassion, hurt and horror, sympathy and desire. He takes us into the truth and trauma of the Iraq war in language that is precise, delicate and beautiful, even as it tells of a suicide bomber, a skull shattered by a bullet, a blade in a bloodgroove.”

Writing War Beautiful Desire Language Hurt Compassion Horror Suicide Soldier Iraq Terror Trauma Delicate Bullets Precise Blades Skulls Shattered Iraq War Brian Bombers Turner Suicide Bombers

Author:Andrew Himes

“The setting is a worthy one, if the devil did desire to have a hand in the affairs of men.”

Ifs Men Book Hands Desire Language Devil Affair Worthy Setting Settings

Book:Hound of the Baskervilles

Source: Hound of the Baskervilles

“NVC is language, thoughts, communication skills and means of influence that serve my desire to do three things: 1) to liberate myself from cultural learning that is in conflict with how I want to live my life. 2) to empower myself to connect with myself and others in a way that makes compassionate giving natural. 3) to empower myself to create structures that support compassionate giving.”

“In language at once stark and delicate, Suki Kim shatters the polemic of North and South Korea. She couples an investigative reporter's fierce desire to strip away the fiction of the Hermit Kingdom with an immigrant's insatiable hunger for an emotional home, no matter how troubled and no matter how impossible.”

“Babies who have not yet been taught to speak any language are the only race of the earth, the race of man: all the rest is pretence, what we call civilization, hatred, fear, desire for strength.”

Men Earth Desire Speak Language Race Taught Baby Civilization Hatred Pretence

Book:The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze, and Other Stories

Source: The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze, and Other Stories

“Like desire, language disrupts, refuses to be contained within boundaries.”

Desire Language Sex Refuse Boundaries

Book:Teaching To Transgress

Source: Teaching To Transgress

“All my desires are born of my dreams. And I have proven my love with words. To what fantastic creatures have I entrusted myself, in what dolorous and ravishing world has my imagination enclosed me? I am sure of having been loved in the most mysterious of domains, my own. The language of my love does not belong to human language, my human body does not touch the flesh of my love. My amorous imagination has always been constant and high enough so that nothing could attempt to convince me of error.”