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But at the beginning it was clear to me that concrete poetry was peculiarly suited for using in public settings. This was my idea, but of course I never really much got the chance to do it.
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I had a quack in the floor. So, I had to use ductile.
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When your head is smashing into the concrete you don't have question about whether it's a real sensation. And ultimately, that's what's going to unmake us all - smashing up against the physical reality of death and decay, and being unmade.
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The imperial vastness of late Roman architecture was made possible by the invention of concrete.
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For me concrete poetry was a particular way of using language which came out of a particular feeling, and I don't have control over whether this feeling is in me or not.
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When you're in the city, trapped among the cubic structures, it's easy to forget that you're connected to the earth, because you're so separated from it by layers and layers of protection - the soles of your shoes, sandals, or slippers, sheets of asphalt, concrete, linoleum tiling.
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The game got these old handprints on it, but Imma be the one to pour cement on it.
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you were attacked by cement monkeys?
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Solid stone is just sand and water ... Sand and water and a million years gone by.
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Nothing is built on stone; All is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone.
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Architecture has its place in the concrete world. This is where it exists. This is where it makes its statement.
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I'm pretty durable, but concrete and I have faced off before. While I didn't die, I wouldn't say I won, either.
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Concrete experiences serve as the primary building blocks from which we extend our capacity for thought and give rise to more abstracted concepts.

We understand the new in terms of the known.
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This cement can be used in any situation and for any purpose to which any other mortar or hydraulic cement can be applied. It does not become perfectly hard within one or two months.
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I once believed soft, warm, beautiful things could never flourish in an environment of hard concrete and cold, dark bricks.
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Architecture is not based on concrete and steel, and the elements of the soil. It's based on wonder.
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Boundaries are just made of Brick and cement.
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I'll skate on concrete if I have to. I'm not worried about how fast the ice is. I'm worried about how fast I can go on the ice.
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God Bless the grass That grows through the crack They roll the concrete over it To try and keep it back The concrete gets tired Of what it has to do It breaks and it buckles And the grass grows through. God bless the grass
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I'm Hinata Shouyou from the concrete.
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Time is a concrete product
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What I saw had no solidity, it was all made of mist and nylon, with nothing behind.
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A very big percentage of small-scale construction is plastic. But it's some horrible beige plastic made to look like wood.
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Don't wish for bricks when you can build from stone.
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You employ stone, wood and concrete, and with these materials you build houses and palaces. That is construction. Ingenuity is at work.
But suddenly you touch my heart, you do me good, I am happy and I say: This is beautiful. That is Architecture. Art enters in.
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You cannot expect stone to be as pliable as clay.
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Life is rich, always changing, always challenging, and we architects have the task of transmitting into wood, concrete, glass and steel, of transforming human aspirations into habitable and meaningful space.
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I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble.
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With my name in cement, I feel actualised. - On cementing his hand prints on Sunset Boulevard
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trying to convert an existing class from concrete to abstract by pushing just the concrete parts down into a new subclass, you might accidentally leave remnants of concrete behavior behind.
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You know, the big Valbowski is a lot like concrete mix. You know? You just get it a little wet, take a step back, and watch it get ROCK HARD!
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This period of dissipating novelty during which the cement and aggregate of life turns everything concrete.
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We make our heroes out of clay.
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Don't take anything for granite. That's what tombstones are made of.
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Sticks and stones build strong houses
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Pouring concrete on land you don't own is called a calculated risk, if you don't pour you loose millions.
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Pavement is for the unimaginative.
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Writing makes it even harder than concrete. Writing makes it hard as diamond.
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There must be a precise moment when wet cement turns dry, when it no longer accepts footprints or scratched-in declarations of love; an ordinary moment, unnoticed, just like any. But in that moment, the facts of a life can change.
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We feel we have to put concrete on every inch of land. It disturbs the ecology, and it takes away the experience of a child going out into the woods and seeing all of nature.
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Every thought, good or bad, becomes concrete; it materializes and becomes a reality.
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The temple of truth is built indeed of stones of crystal, but, inasmuch as men have been concerned in rearing it, it has been consolidated by a cement composed of baser materials.
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The soft droppes of rain perce the hard marble.
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Tires. Drums. Steel cages.
Your place is like Disneyland!
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I am a rose that grew from concrete. There was no soil, fertilizer or water to nourish me; just the hand of God to show that miracles can and do happen.
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The poor thing had cowered away from the sides of the pan, blackened on top, and developed drying cracks. It was inedible, better suited to the construction supply trade than to a dinner plate. A few dozen more of these and some mortar and she'd have that wall she wanted around her terrace.
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Our national flower is the concrete cloverleaf
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When I'm in a city that's just clean, concrete lines, I get really short of breath and confused. It's much more interesting to me when nature is creeping back and tearing the mortar apart between the bricks.
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The materials of city planning are: sky, space, trees, steel and cement; in that order and that hierarchy.
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If grass can grow through cement, love can find you every time.
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This must be how I broke through the concrete in Warner's torture chamber. Which means I still have no idea how I broke through the concrete in Warner's torture chamber.
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If foundations made of stone can turn to dust, then the hardest hearts of steel can turn to rust.
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The century's most radical vice ... the notion that human beings can be shoveled around like concrete.
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We tried burying the waste at sea and the concrete cannisters that held it cracked open.
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There is no reason to design buildings that are more basic and rectilinear, because with concrete you can cover almost any space.
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Life is made up of marble and mud.
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Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence.
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Shape clay into a vessel; it is the space within that makes it useful.
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I like it when a flower or a little tuft of grass grows through a crack in the concrete. It's so fuckin' heroic.
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If I run or breathe too deep, the cheap stitches holding me together will snap, and all the stickiness inside will pour out and burn through the concrete.
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Time is up for my little caravan kingdom. It's time for a window that does not look into concrete.
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A falling drop at last will carve a stone.
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The Highways of America are built chiefly of politics, whereas the proper material is crushed rock or concrete.
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Every time I've flown an aircraft, or visited a steelworks, or watched a panel-beater at work, I've learned something new that can be applied to buildings.
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Broken glass. It's just like glitter, isn't it?
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I found Rome built of bricks; I leave her clothed in marble.
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The Stone the Builders Rejected.
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The sky is raining bricks right into my skull.
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What you cannot conquer, circumvent but do not compromise yourself for the sake of the urban jungle, because concrete does not sympathise.
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A commitment to the concrete does more than just ease communication; it can lead to better reasoning.
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A pretty building I'm making, without either bricks or timber. I'm up i' the garret a'ready, and haven't so much as dug the foundation.
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Cinders. Embers. Ashes.
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A bullet leaves evidence that a mortar doesn't.
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When I grew up in central London, we had six pavement slabs for a garden.
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Concrete poets continue to turn out beautiful things, but to me they're more visual than oral, and they almost really belong on the wall rather than in a book. I haven't the least idea of where poetry is going.
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The abstract is no more than an instrument, an organ, to see the concrete clearly.
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You can't make a sculpture until you've got a lump of rock.
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What have you been doing to yourself? Your back is like concrete." That's not the only thing that's like concrete.
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If someone took the finest marble and knew how to shape it artfully: Prometheus' material was lowly clay, but his statues walked.
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He [Caesar Augustus] found a city built of brick; he left it built of marble.
[Lat., Urbem lateritiam accepit, mamoream relinquit.]
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The floor is solid metal in some places and metal grating in others. Everything smells like rotting garbage and fire.
"Don't say I never took you anywhere nice," Peter says.
"Wouldn't dream of it," I say.
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Water continually dropping will wear hard rocks hollow.
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How do you explain plastic to a medieval forest bard?
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But which is the stone that supports the bridge?
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What is harder than rock, or softer than water? Yet soft water hollows out hard rock. Persevere.
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stones are hard everywhere.
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Stone, I must be stone, I must be Casterly Rock, hard and unmovable.
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The alley was like most any other alley in a city where the infrastructure was crumbling, in a state where the infrastructure was crumbling. It was a patchwork of asphalt spot repairs and loose gravel over a crumbling base of decades-old concrete.
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We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images. Abstract art will have been good for one thing: to restore its exact virginity to figurative art.
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Out in this profane city,
sometimes sidewalks
seem the only cement that connects us,
pressed by the sacred strangers
we will never touch.
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At ground level Alexanderplatz is a monstrous expanse of grey concrete designed to make people feel small. It works.
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I came to Rome when it was a city of stone ... and left it a city of marble
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I threw it down the air shaft. There's a concrete floor below.
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With a wall all around
A clay bowl is moulded;
But the use of the bowl
Will depend on the part
Of the bowl that is void.
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The pen is mightier than the paving-stone
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When I'm writing, I am concentrating almost wholly on concrete detail: the color a room is painted, the way a drop of water rolls off a wet leaf after a rain.
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I am trying to counter the fixity of architectures, their stolidity, with elements that give an ineffable immaterial quality.
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The design of good houses requires an understanding of both the construction materials and the behavior of real humans.
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We hammer wood for a house, but it is the inner space that makes it liveable.