Alkalam Quotes & Sayings

I believe in rooting poems in actual places, even if you move into some other extraordinary realm. — Edward Hirsch

But why live in these environments at all? What possessed fish to get out of the water or live in the margins? Think of this: virtually every fish swimming in these 375-million-year-old streams was a predator of some kind. Some were up to sixteen feet long, almost twice the size of the largest Tiktaalik. The most common fish species we find alongside Tiktaalik is seven feet long and has a head as wide as a basketball. The teeth are barbs the size of railroad spikes. Would you want to swim in these ancient streams? — Neil Shubin

Death is always there, just beneath the surface. — Mason Cooley

The benefit of writing a collection - as opposed to a novel - is that I'm able to have some version of the war in each story without having to comment on its all-encompassing nature. Turn the page and here are new characters and new situations, but the war remains ... Isn't that how life has been for us for over a decade? — Said Sayrafiezadeh

A Briton even in love should be A subject, not a slave! — William Wordsworth

I must achieve internal consistency. — Edmund Husserl

This time, as you will have seen, he killed not for revenge, but for gain. — J.K. Rowling