Scott Mcdaniel

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John Dewey
“Education is a social process; education is growth; education is not preparation for life but is life itself.”
John Dewey

Paul Celan
“Autunm eats its leaf out of my hand: we are friends.
From the nuts we shell time and we teach it to walk:
then time returns to the shell.

In the mirror it's Sunday,
in dream there is room for sleeping,
our mouths speak the truth.

My eye moves down to the sex of my loved one:
we look at each other,
we exchange dark words,
we love each other like poppy and recollection,
we sleep like wine in the conches,
like the sea in the moon's blood ray.

We stand by the window embracing, and people look up from
the street:
it is time they knew!
It is time the stone made an effort to flower,
time unrest had a beating heart.
It is time it were time.

It is time.”
Paul Celan

Paul Celan
“How you die out in me:

down to the last
worn-out
knot of breath
you're there, with a
splinter
of life.”
Paul Celan, Poems of Paul Celan

Italo Calvino
“A person's life consists of a collection of events,
the last of which could also change the meaning of the whole,
not because it counts more than the previous ones
but because once they are included in a life,
events are arranged in an order that is not chronological but, rather,
corresponds to an inner architecture.”
Italo Calvino, Mr Palomar

“I smile sadly, in light of what came next
to think that I told her
If you can just hang on, things are bound to improve

she made me a liar, too--
the woman who dug the hole
I've been trying to write myself out of
ever since”
Tony O'Neill

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