I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering.
Wise Words: Honore de Balzac: vocations
Vocations which we wanted to pursue but didn’t, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence.
Wise Words: Plato
Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
Wise Words: Raymond Chandler
There are two kinds of truth: the truth that lights the way and the truth that warms the heart. The first of these is science, and the second is art. Neither is independent of the other or more important than the other. Without art, science would be as useless as a pair of high forceps in the hands of a plumber. Without science, art would become a crude mess of folklore and emotional quackery. The truth of art keeps science from becoming inhuman, and the truth of science keeps art from becoming ridiculous.
Wise Words: John N. Bahcall
The most important discoveries will provide answers to questions that we do not yet know how to ask and will concern objects we have not yet imagined.
Wise Words: Marcel Proust: grateful
Let us be grateful to people to make us happy. They are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
Wise Words: Jodi Picault
Extraordinary things are always hiding in places people never think to look.
Wise Words: B.R. Myers
Life cannot be classified in terms of a simple neurological ladder, with human beings at the top; it is more accurate to talk of different forms of intelligence, each with its strengths and weaknesses. This point was well demonstrated in the minutes before last December’s [2004] tsunami, when tourists grabbed their digital cameras and ran after the ebbing surf, and all the “dumb” animals made for the hills.
Wise Words: Joanna Macy
The heart that breaks open can contain the whole Universe.
Wise Words: Eknath Easwaran
It is not action or effort that we must surrender; it is self-will, and this is terribly difficult. You must do your best constantly, yet never allow yourself to become involved in whether things work out the way you want.
