Famous Quotes Ipsum

Imagination is more powerful than knowledge. everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it. all good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath. poets . . . create from the very depths of the collective unconscious, voicing aloud what others only dream. i would rather be kicked with a foot than be overcome by a loud voice speaking cruel words. do you understand, / child, how the moon, the tide / is in our own image? the people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can't find them, make them. if a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as michelangelo painted, or beethoven composed music, or shakespeare composed poetry. he should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, 'here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well. a prudent question is one half of wisdom. call it fate, call it luck, call it karma. i believe everything happens for a reason. there must be quite a few things a hot bath won't cure, but i don't know many of them. whenever i'm sad i'm going to die, or so nervous i can't sleep, or in love with somebody i won't be seeing for a week, i slump down just so far and then i say: 'i'll go take a hot bath.' the fear of death follows from the fear of life. a man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time. in our minds we can understand the highest god, but so long as we are in human bodies living in this rich and varied world, we need images that we can see and touch and love. and each one of them shows us a part of that supreme power, and all the parts together give us a glimpse of the whole. so the people who insist there is only one god are right, and so are those who honor the many, but they are right in different ways. janis joplin taught me about passion. but i always think that the best way to know god is to love many things. it's still snowing. and freezing. however, we haven't had an earthquake lately. the world breaks us all. afterward, some are stronger at the broken places. it is beautiful that our lives coincided for so long. doubt thou the stars are fine / doubt that the sun doth move / doubt truth be a liar / but never doubt i love. we are each of us angels with only one wing. and we can only fly embracing each other. a life of self-indulgence, if led with a whole heart, may also bring a certain wisdom..

Lolita is famous, not i. i am an obscure, doubly obscure, novelist with an unpronounceable last name. there exists a passion for comprehension, just as there is a passion for music. that passion is rather common in children, but gets lost in most of us later on. start by doing what's necessary, then what's possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible. there is something very wonderful in music. words are wonderful enough; but music is even more wonderful. it speaks not to our thoughts as words do; it speaks straight to our hearts and spirits, to the very core and root of our souls. music soothes us, stirs us up; it puts noble feelings in us; it melts us to tears; we know not how - it is a language by itself, just as perfect, in its way, as speech, as words. i think the loneliest thing is to be alone with another person. i'd rather be by myself than with someone who has no idea who i am..

The one way of tolerating existence is to lose oneself in literature as in a perpetual orgy. all good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath. your daughter has a quick and witty tongue. i am woman, hear me roar! do you understand, / child, how the moon, the tide / is in our own image? the search for truth is more precious than its possession. adversity is like a strong wind. i don't mean just that it holds us back from places we might otherwise go. it also tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that afterward we see ourselves as we really are, and not merely as we might like to be. to love another person is to see the face of god. where there is great love there are always great miracles..