The kind of poet who founds and reconstitutes values is somebody like Yeats or Whitman – these are public value-founders.
SEAMUS HEANEYDisappointments are to the soul what a thunderstorm is to the air.
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Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump: you have to get it right the first time.
MARGARET MEAD -
We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.
ANAIS NIN -
Theres beauty in pain, its called growth.
ANEENA BIJU -
I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.
TOM WAITS -
Dinner with water is dinner for prisoners
ADAM GOPNIK -
All you need is yourself
HEI-RAN PARK -
I wonder if to stare into the face of God will drive me crazy. (I wonder who would blink first.)
TIM ALLEN -
It is really wonderful how much resilience there is in human nature. Let any obstructing cause, no matter what, be removed in any way, even by death, and we fly back to first principles of hope and enjoyment.
BRAM STOKER -
Arts and the Sciences are a natural symbiosis. They stem from the same human existential impulse – exploration. Exploration of what lies beneath the surface, and re-confuguration of elements of what we call reality.
WOLE SOYINKA -
My life is proof that I don’t need you to do what I do. If there’s no one to see it, I’ll watch it.
ABEL FERRARA -
What he [Bernie Sanders] does next will really determine whether he is blazing a trail that others can follow into office, or whether he is an exception to the rule.
BEN WIKLER -
We keep asking for answers; God keeps sending us people.
BOB GOFF -
To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail.
ABRAHAM MASLOW -
I love being manipulated by what I see. I love weepies and romantic comedies where you’re reaching for the Kleenex at the right moment.
NICK CAVE -
God, help me to see others not as enemies or as ungodly but rather as thirsty people. And give me the courage and compassion to offer your Living Water, which alone quenches deep thirst.
HENRI NOUWEN