The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact.
Archives for August 2018
Edward Albee
The act of writing is an act of optimism. You would not take the trouble to do it if you felt that it didn’t matter.
Langston Hughes
Hold fast to dreams for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.
W.H. Auden
Well, who in his own backyard / Has not opened his heart to the smiling / Secret he cannot quote? / Which goes to show that the Bard / Was sober when he wrote / That this world of fact we love / Is unsubstantial stuff: / All the rest is silence / On the other side of the wall; / And the silence ripeness, / And the ripeness all.
E.B. White
Writing is hard work and bad for the health.
Gilgamesh
When the gods created man they allotted to him death, but life they retained in their own keeping.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
A room without books is like a body without a soul.
William Faulkner
Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
Oliver Goldsmith
Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.
Howard Pyle
Be it known that the spiritual world in outward appearance is entirely similar to the natural world.