● Immature poets imitate; mature poets
steal.
● Only those who will risk going too far
can possibly find out how far one can go. [Preface to
Transit of Venus: Poems by Harry Crosby (1931)
● But it is certain that a book is
not harmless merely because no one is consciously offended by it.
● The years between fifty and seventy
are the hardest. You are always being asked to do more, and you are not
yet decrepit enough to turn them down.
● The bad poet is usually unconscious
where he ought to be conscious, and conscious where he ought to be
unconscious. Both errors tend to make him "personal." Poetry is not
a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the
expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of
course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to
want to escape from these things.
● This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper.
- T.S.Eliot
● Don't find fault, find a remedy.
● Coming together is a beginning; keeping
together is progress; working together is success.
- Henry Ford
● Where any answer is possible, all
answers are meaningless.
● The Law of conservation of energy
tells us we can't get something for nothing, but we refuse to believe it.
— Book of Science and Nature Quotations, 1988.
● From my close observation of writers
... they fall into two groups:
1) those who bleed copiously and visibly at any bad review, and 2) those
who bleed copiously and secretly at any bad review.
● Writing, to me, is simply thinking
through my fingers.
- Isaac Asimov
● "He insulted me, hit me, beat me,
robbed me" — for those who don't brood on this, hostility is stilled.
Hostilities aren't stilled through hostility, regardless. Hostilities are
stilled through non-hostility: this, an unending truth. (Verses 3-5)
● As rain breaks through an
ill-thatched house, passion will break through an unreflecting mind. (Verse 13)
● Heedfulness is the path to the
Deathless. Heedlessness is the path to death. The heedful die not. The heedless
are as if dead already. (Verse 21)
● Earnest among the thoughtless,
awake among the sleepers, the wise man advances like a racer, leaving behind the
hack. (Verse 29)
● Just as a fletcher straightens an
arrow shaft, even so the discerning man straightens his mind — so fickle and
unsteady, so difficult to guard. (Verse 33)
● Long for the wakeful is the night.
Long for the weary, a league. For fools unaware of True Dhamma, samsara is long.
(Verse 60)
- Dhammapada (One of the primary collections of teachings attributed to Gautama Buddha
)
● My best friend is the one who
brings out the best in me.
- Henry Ford
● Liberty without learning is
always in peril; learning without liberty is always in vain.
- John F. Kennedy
● No soul is desolate as long
as there is a human being for whom it can feel trust and
reverence.
- George Eliot
● The best way to keep your
friends is not to give them away.
- Wilson Mizner
● The happiest moments my heart
knows are those in which it is pouring forth its affections to
a few esteemed characters.
- Thomas Jefferson
● One can never speak enough of
the virtues, the dangers, the power of shared laughter.
- Francoise Sagan
● Friendship is always a sweet
responsibilty, never an oppourtunity.
- Kahil Gibran
● There is magic in the memory of
schoolboy friendships; it softens the heart, and even affects
the nervous system of those who have no heart.
- Bejamin Disraeli
● I no doubt deserved my enemies,
but I don't believe I deserved my friends.
- Walt Whitman
● True friendship is never
serene.
- Marquise de Sevigne
● When friends stop being frank
and useful to each other, the whole world loses some of its
radiance.
- Anatole Broyard
● Friends are born, not made.
- Henry Adams
● This communicating of a man's
self to his friend works two contrary effects; for it
redoubleth joy, and cutteth griefs in half.
- Francis Bacon
● Life is partly what we make
it, and partly what is made by the friends whom we choose.
- Tehyi Hsieh
● There is no hope of joy
except in human relations.
- Antoine de Sainte-Exupery
● The making of friends, who
are real friends, is the best token we have of a man's success
in life.
- Edward Everett Hale
● Except in cases of necessity,
which are rare, leave your friend to learn unpleasant things
from his enemies; they are ready enough to tell them.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
● The most I can do for my
friend is simply to be his friend. I have no wealth to bestow
on him. If he knows that I am happy in loving him, he will want
no other reward. Is not friendship divine in this?
- Henry David Thoreau
● Friendship that flows from
the heart cannot be frozen by adversity, as the water that
flows from the spring cannogt congeal in winter.
- James Fenimore Cooper
● Friendship without self
interest is one of the rare and beautiful things in life.
- James Francis Byrnes
● Every man should have a
fair-sized cemetary in which to bury the faults of his friends.
- Henry Brooks Adams
● A circle is round it has no
end, that's how long I want to be your friend!
- Anonymous
● There are only two kinds of
people who are really fascinating--people who know absolutely
everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.
- Oscar Wilde
● I would rather be a coward
than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.
- E. M. Forster
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