Atlas of the Human Heart QUOTES

1 " The last introvert in a world of extroverts. Silence: my response to both emptiness and saturation. But silence frightens people. I had to learn how to talk. Out of politeness. "

― Ariel Gore , Atlas of the Human Heart

3 " With each beat, the heart pumps nearly three ounces of blood into the arteries--seventy-five to ninety gallons an hour when the body is at rest. "

― Ariel Gore , Atlas of the Human Heart

5 " Poet' had always sounded like a profession to me, or a talent. But the dead American [Muriel Rukeyser, The Life of Poetry] made it sound like a faith. "

― Ariel Gore , Atlas of the Human Heart