Famous Quotes Ipsum

Imagination is more powerful than knowledge. tolerating blind obedience in the name of patriotism or religion ultimately takes our lives. saturday found him for the first time strolling alone through zurich, breathing in the heady smell of his freedom. new adventures hid around each corner. the future was again a secret. when you come to the edge of all the light you know, and are about to step off into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing one of two things will happen: there will be something solid to stand on, or you will be taught how to fly. for as long as i can remember, i had been transparent to myself, unselfconscious, learning, doing, most of every day. now i was in my own way; i myself was a dark object i could not ignore. i couldn't remember how to forget myself. i didn't want to think about myself, to reckon myself in, to deal with myself every livelong minute on top of everything else - but swerve as i might, i couldn't avoid it. i was a boulder blocking my own path. i was a dog barking between my own ears, a barking dog who wouldn't hush. so this was adolescence..... writers tend to devour people, themselves included. one of the impressive qualities of charlotte brontë's heroines, the quality that makes them more valuable to the woman reader than anna karenina, emma bovary, and catherine earnshaw combined is their determined refusal to be romantic. when i get a little money, i buy books; and, if any is left, i buy food and clothes. the moment of change is the only poem. the writer should never be ashamed of staring. there is nothing that does not require his attention. talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience. do you understand, / child, how the moon, the tide / is in our own image? it was only the first of many occasions during those months that seemed to take place out of time, or in a historical moment i had yet to identify. you set up your place in my thoughts / moved in and made my thinking crowded. sleeping is curiously addictive. you are part of the world, but not in it, and somehow that just seems right. it seems enough. too often we get scared. scared of what we might not be able to do. scared of what people might think if we tried. we let fears stand in the way of our hopes. we say no when we want to say yes. we sit quietly when we want to scream. and we shout with the others when we should keep our mouths shut. why? after all, we do only go around once. there's really no time to be afraid. just do it. anyone can look for fashion in a boutique or history in a museum. the creative explorer looks for history in a hardware store and fashion in an airport. prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action. the trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat. the form of government most suitable to the artist is no government at all. run for office? no. i've slept with too many women, i've done too many drugs, and i've been to too many parties. one does not love a place the less for having suffered in it unless it has all been suffering, nothing but suffering. footfalls echo in the memory / down the passage we did not take / towards the door we never opened / into the rose garden we are each of us angels with only one wing. and we can only fly embracing each other. loneliness is the first thing which god's eye named, not good. to live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable and wealthy, not rich; to study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly; to listen to stars and birds, to babes and sages, with open heart; to bear all cheerfully, do all bravely, await occasions, hurry never; to let the spiritual, unbidden, and unconscious grow up through the common. this is to be my symphony..