“No doubt I shall go on writing, stumbling across tundras of unmeaning, planting words like bloody flags in my wake….”
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Alexander Trocchi 1
Scottish writer 1925–1984Related quotes
“Silence is better than unmeaning words.”
Pythagoras
(-585–-495 BC) ancient Greek mathematician and philosopher
As quoted in Encyclopaedia Americana (1832) Vol. X, p. 445 edited by Francis Lieber, E. Wigglesworth, and Thomas Gamaliel Bradford
Coventry Patmore
(1823–1896) English poet
Book I, Canto VIII, III The Spirit's Epochs.
The Angel In The House (1854)
Closing words
The Naked Civil Servant (1968)
“May I really say it! All truths are bloody truths to me—take a look at my previous writings.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
(1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist
Notebooks (Summer 1880) 4[271]
“The next flag they plant will be all white, and it'll be surrender.”
Lou Holtz
(1937) American college football coach, professional football coach, television sports announcer
On Michigan State's flag-planting, as attributed by John Walters, "Cool Hand on the remote" http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2005/writers/john_walters/09/18/campus.blitz/1.html, Sports Illustrated.com, 19 September 2005
Attributed
The Waking (1953), The Waking
Source: The Collected Poems
Context: This shaking keeps me steady. I should know.
What falls away is always. And is near.
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
I learn by going where I have to go.
