Quotes

"The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it." – Flannery O'Connor 

 
"Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet."
Anon.

Poetry isn't a profession; it's a way of life. It's an empty basket; you put your life into it and make something out of that. - Mary Oliver

 

"When you're in the shit up to your neck , there's nothing left to do but sing." 

Samuel Beckett

 

"Human life is full of the play of samskaras―tendencies developed by repeated actions."

- Vinoba Bhave   b.9/11/1895

"A country should be defended not by arms, but by ethical behavior." 

- Vinoba Bhave (born September 11, 1895)

"Love the life you live, live the life you love " Bob Marley

“Our image of happiness is indissolubly bound up with the image of redemption.” - Walter Benjamin

“Inject a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless dough of existence” ― O. Henry (born September 11, 1862)

Be like the fox, who makes more tracks than necessary, some in the wrong direction. 

--Wendell Berry "Manifesto: Mad Farmer Liberation Front

“Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.” —THEODORE ROOSEVELT

"Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth" 

- Pablo Picasso by Gjon Mili , 1949