What Else? Writers Quotes! And stuff.

[glenn]

If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom?

~~Khalil Gibran

[glenn]

“Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others.”


¯ Hermann Hesse, Gertrude

[heartfelt7]

"But where was I to start? The world is so vast, I shall start with the country I knew best, my own. But my country is so very large. I had better start with my town. But my town, too, is large. I had best start with my street. No, my home. No, my family. Never mind, I shall start with myself."

-- Elie Wiesel

[glenn]

“Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go."

Hermann Hesse

[glenn]

“Life does rhyme: it rhymes all the time.”


¯ Martin Amis

[glenn]

Who can tell the dancer from the dance?

~William Butler Yeats

[glenn]

“If every library is in some sense a reflection of its readers, it is also an image of that which we are not, and cannot be.”


¯ Alberto Manguel, The Library at Night

[glenn]

Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.

~~Rabindranath Tagore

[glenn]

“when man determined to destroy
himself he picked the was
of shall and finding only why
smashed it into because.”


e.e. cummings

[heartfelt7]

"The world is a very different one now.
For man holds in his mortal hands
the power to abolish all forms of human poverty
and all forms of human life."

John F. Kennedy (1961 Inaugural Address)


(I would also add that since the '60s,
man has invariably chosen and is still choosing
the second option.)

[glenn]

“Faeries, come take me out of this dull world,
For I would ride with you upon the wind,
Run on the top of the dishevelled tide,
And dance upon the mountains like a flame.”


¯ W.B. Yeats, The Land of Heart's Desire

[glenn]

All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.


~~Thomas Jefferson

[heartfelt7]

Do not waste your life in doubt and fear. Spend yourself on the work before you, well assured that the right performance of this hour's duties will be the preparation for the hours or ages to follow.

- Benjamin Franklin

[heartfelt7]

For every ailment under the sun,
There is a remedy, or there is none;
If there be one, try to find it;
If there is none, never mind it.

--Mother Goose

[anirbas]

"Out of the quarrel with others we make rhetoric;
out of the quarrel with ourselves we make poetry." ~W.B. Yeats

[heartfelt7]

From Sigmund Freud's "Civilization and Its Discontents"

"…the ego seems to maintain clear and sharp lines of demarcation. There is only one state – admittedly an unusual state… – in which it does not do this. At the height of being in love the boundary between ego and object threatens to melt away. Against all the evidence of his senses, a man who is in love declares that 'I' and 'you' are one, and is prepared to behave as if it were a fact."

[anirbas]

"And, by the way, everything in life is writeable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt." ~Sylvia Plath.

[anirbas]

"The crown of literature is poetry. It is its end and aim.
It is the sublimest activity of the human mind.
It is the achievement of beauty and delicacy.
The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes."
~Somerset Maugham

[aims]

He who has done nothing has known nothing. Thomas Carlyle (1832)

[anirbas]

"I want to go to the crappy town where I'm the hero."

~Wash, Firefly series.


(Yes, I'm an avid fan of the short lived Firefly series; and the ensuing movie, Serenity. Watch the entire series followed by the movie, at least, sometimes twice a year. Reminds of the original Star Trek. In that there was only one season made of it. But, Trekkies, of which I am also one, could and can watch it over and over and over.)

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[phantasm]

"TO BE HOPEFUL in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness. What we choose to emphasize in this complex history will determine our lives…If we remember those times and places…where people have behaved magnificently, this gives us the energy to act, and at least the possibility of sending this spinning top of a world in a different direction. And if we do act, in however small a way, we don’t have to wait for some grand utopian future. The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory."

--Howard Zinn

[anirbas]

Something we all needed to hear in these dark, depressing times.

[anirbas]

www.youtube.com/watch?v=aS1esgRV4Rc


"why do we read and write poetry?"

[anirbas]