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1 " If I could sum up my poetry in a few well-chosen words, the result might be a poem. Several years ago, when I was asked to say something on this topic, I came up with the notion that for me the making of poems is both a commemoration (a moment captured) and an evocation (the archaeologist manqué side of me digging into something buried and bringing it to light). But I also said that I find the processes that bring poems into being mysterious, and I wouldn't really wish to know them; the thread that links the first unwilled impulse to the object I acknowledge as the completed poem is a tenuous one, easily broken. If I knew the answers to these riddles, I would write more poems, and better ones. " Simple Poem" is as close as I can get to a credo':Simple PoemI shall make it simple so you understand.Making it simple will make it clear for me.When you have read it, take me by the handAs children do, loving simplicity.This is the simple poem I have made.Tell me you understand. But when you doDon't ask me in return if I have saidAll that I meant, or whether it is true. "
2 " The geologist takes up the history of the earth at the point where the archaeologist leaves it, and carries it further back into remote antiquity. "
― Bal Gangadhar Tilak , The Arctic Home in the Vedas
3 " It's interesting to see that people had so much clutter even thousands of years ago. The only way to get rid of it all was to bury it, and then some archaeologist went and dug it all up. "
― Karl Pilkington , An Idiot Abroad: The Travel Diaries of Karl Pilkington
4 " An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets, the more interested he is in her. "
― Agatha Christie
5 " I am an archaeologist of mature vintage. Rapid descents are not my specialty. I am the plodding type." ~ Grace Madison, PhD. "
6 " Strike was used to playing archaeologist among the ruins of people’s traumatised memories "
7 " I've lived here ... my whole life. It's where I lost all my baby teeth. Where tiny hamster, gerbil, and bird skeletons lie in rotted-out cardboard coffins beneath the oak tree in our backyard. Also where, if some future archaeologist goes digging, they'll find the remains of a plush toy: a gray terrier named Toto I buried after the accident. "
― Jennifer McMahon , My Tiki Girl
8 " I have a habit of being an archaeologist of my own past, a sentimental collector of personal artefacts which may at first glance appear random, but each of which holds a unique significance. As the years pass me by, I find that the number of objects within my possession begins to accumulate. A torn map. A sealed letter. A boat full of paper animals. Each item encapsulates within itself a story, akin to an outward manifestation of my inner journey. "
― Agnes Chew ,
9 " An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have the older she gets the more interested he is in her. "
10 " An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her. "
