Malakhov Pryamoy Quotes & Sayings

Poems are other people's snapshots in which we see our own lives. — Charles Simic

Lady Gregory, in a note to her play Aristotle's Bellows, writes:
Aristotle's name is a part of our folklore. The wife of one of our labourers told me one day as a bee buzzed through the open door, Aristotle of the Books was very wise, but the bees got the best of him in the end. He wanted to know how they did pack the comb, and he wasted the best part of a fortnight watching them doing it. Then he made a hive with a glass cover on it and put it over them, and thought he would watch them, but when he put his eye to the glass, they had covered it with wax, so that it was as black as the pot, and he was as blind as before. He said he was never rightly killed until then. The bees beat him that time surely. — Hilda M. Ransome

He told me that he spent Saturdays and Sundays and all his days off there. "With my wife, of course," he added. Just then his wife was laughing with Marie. For the first time maybe, I really thought I was going to get married. — Albert Camus

But maybe she'd always been this fucking adorable and I'd just been the jackass who never bothered to notice. — Sarah Darlington

The only good thing about being frightened half to death, she thought, is that it makes me forget all about being seasick. — Alison Croggon