“Pray do not grieve so; but go and take a stone, and place it in the hole, and fancy that the gold is still lying there. It will do you quite the same service; for when the gold was there, you had it not, as you did not make the slightest use of it.” StillsUseLyingPrayingStonesGoldHolesGrievingFancy Book:Aesop's fables Source: Aesop's fables
“The danger lies in forgetting what we had. The flow between generations becomes a trickle, grandchildren tape-recording grandparents' memories on special occasions perhaps-no casual storytelling jogged by daily life, there being no shared daily life what with migrations, exiles, diasporas, rendings, the search for work. Or there is a shared daily life riddled with holes of silence.” LyingMemoriesForgetSilenceGenerationsSpecialDangerFlowHolesStorytellingOccasionsDaily LifeTapeGrandparentGrandchildrenExileCasualMigrationDiasporaSpecial Occasion Book:What Is Found There: Notebooks on Poetry and Politics (Expanded Edition) Source: What Is Found There: Notebooks on Poetry and Politics (Expanded Edition)
“Lips move; lips touch; lips signal. Lips are on the outside for show, and on the most secret inside of your mouth. Lips frame words that lie. Lips frame a hole that wants to be filled.” WantShowsMovingLyingSecretMouthsFilledLipsHolesSignals Book:The Ice is Singing Source: The Ice is Singing
“Graduation is a big deal-bigger than getting a hole-in-one while golfing. People might think you're lying about the hole-in-one, but when you graduate, you get a diploma.” PeopleThinkingBigsMightLyingDealsBiggerHolesGraduatesBig DealGolfingDiplomaHole In One Author:Anderson Cooper