#monument

In the spring of her twenty-second year, Sumire fell in love for the first time in her life. An intense love, a veritable tornado sweeping across the plains—flattening everything in its path, tossing things up in the air, ripping them to shreds, crushing them to bits. The tornado’s intensity doesn’t abate for a second as it blasts across the ocean, laying waste to Angkor Wat, incinerating an Indian jungle, tigers and everything, transforming itself into a Persian desert sandstorm, burying an exotic fortress city under a sea of sand. In short, a love of truly monumental proportions. The person she fell in love with happened to be 17 years older than Sumire. And was married. And, I should add, was a woman. This is where it all began, and where it all ended. Almost. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#intensity #love #monumental #tornado #life

There’s a monument due me by rank already I’d blow the damn thing up with dynamite So strongly I hate every kind of dead thing So much I adore every kind of life! ↗

— Vladimir Mayakovsky

#monument #life

The bust of Colonel Sanders stands as a monument to cruelty and has no place in the Kentucky state Capitol. ↗

— Pamela Anderson

#capitol #colonel #cruelty #kentucky #monument

I think the people will- who advocate having a step back and read those public opinion polls on the front page of the newspapers all over this country saying public supports restoration in restoration of the Everglades, protection of the parks and the creation of monuments. ↗

— Bruce Babbitt

#back #country #creation #everglades #front

I should be proud to have my memory graced, but only if the monument be placed... here, where I endured three hundred hours in line before the implacable iron bars. ↗

— Anna Akhmatova

#before #endured #here #hours #hundred

Monuments and archaeological pieces serve as testimonies of man's greatness and establish a dialogue between civilizations showing the extent to which human beings are linked. ↗

— Vincente Fox

#beings #between #civilizations #dialogue #establish

We have created indoor installations inside museums, like the Wrapped Floor at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago in 1968, and not monumental at all by any standards. ↗

— Christo

#art #chicago #contemporary #contemporary art #created

I think Henry Miller has had huge influence not because he wrote about sex, but because the memoir or the nonfiction novel has become such a monumental force in American publishing, if not in literature. ↗

— Leslie Fiedler

#american #because #become #force #had

Memory is the treasure house of the mind wherein the monuments thereof are kept and preserved. ↗

— Thomas Fuller

#kept #memory #mind #monuments #preserved

I think if it's not monumental, there's no point. ↗

— Stephan Jenkins

#i think #monumental #no point #point #think