817 quotes found
“The truth is revealed to those who desire to know, but also to those who will take the time to take action to counter or further the truths they have come to know..”
“The woman I was yesterday, introduced me to the woman I am today; which makes me very excited about meeting the woman I will become tomorrow. ”
“Hold tight to what is most yourself,Don't squander it, don't let your lifeBe governed by what disturbs you.”
“I have found that a writer is formed not so much by their experiences but by the way in which they view and capture those experiences. Like vivid, rainbow metallic skin cells on the wings of a frag...”
“The best gift you can give today is the gift of LOVE!”
“When you have to pretend to be someone, anyone other than yourself. Then you need to make over every part of you. Because just pretending to be someone, anyone other than yourself, you always will ...”
“You do not set a high enough value on yourself if you think a man who loves you should not weave you into the fabric of his life with every thread. Robert Service to Constance MacLean, 1903 (age 28)”
“EdgesI am a child throwing rocks into the stream.Challenging the rushing water.Raising my fist and daring fate to do it worst.I am a dancer in the waves of the ocean.Swaying in time with the tide.P...”
“I'm probably projecting. I'm a projector. For example: The world is not terrible. I just keep thinking it is.”
“To live meant feeding my former self to my current self.”
“Who is that blond child laughing as he runs after his colored marbles? [my marbles]It's meAnd who is the poet writing this poem?That blond child who laughed as he ran after his colored marbles”
“The most sublime labour of poetry is to give sense and passion to insensate things”
“() my money guy Richard is going without a tie now, like a politician who wants to appeal to the suffering common man (or perhaps every morning his firm takes the ties and shoelaces away from the b...”
“American dream,a spouse,a brace of children,cuddly pets,coffee-table books,rusted skeleton keys,plastic cauliflower bags,business cards of business-card printers,a mound of used airmail envelopes. ...”
“Woodrow Wilson has just made the decision to take part in World War I. What was he feeling then? Did he know the possible outcomes of his decision? Did he feel the burden of American lives on his s...”
“But it's not easy, realising how we fucked it all up. And that turns out to be the hardest thing to live with, not the regret or the fear, but the realisation that the edge is so close to where we ...”
“I, too, head for the Baths of Caracalla,thinkingwith my old, magnificentprivilege of thinking(And let there still be a god in me that thinks,lost, weak, and childish,yet whose voice is so humanit i...”
“One thinks of the failure of representation since 9/11, the proliferation of novels, the media glut, the surfeit of images that somehow slide too easily into a banal repertoire, commodified shock.”
“Blankly expressing oneself can be stronger than words.”
“It rainsAnd rainsAnd rains.But there is a sky above the rain,Nothing can rot the sky.Earth has turned to mud. What of it?The heart of the planet is made of fire, of ardent sun.(from "A Rainy Day")”
