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We dance around in a ring and suppose, but the secret sits in the middle, and knows. - Robert Frost
Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance. - Carl Sandburg
Morning is when I am awake, and there is a dawn within me. - Henry David Thoreau
I knew who I was when I woke up this morning, but I think I must have changed several times since then. - Lewis Carroll (Alice in Wonderland)
If you would be forgotten as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth reading, or do things worth writing. - Benjamin Franklin
Hello, Darkness, my old friend - I've come to talk with you again. Because a vision softly creeping left its seeds while I was sleeping, and the vision that was planted in my brain still remains within the sounds of silence. - Paul Simon
The harvest of my daily life is a little stardust caught in a segment of the rainbow I have clutched. - Henry David Thoreau
Come mothers and fathers throughout the land, and don't criticize what you can't understand. - Bob Dylan
Don't walk in front of me ~
I may not follow.
Don't walk behind me ~
I may not lead.
Walk beside me ~
And just be my friend.
- Albert Camus
Love is like a cake ~ you don't know what's in it until you've eaten it ~ and then it's too late.
- from Excalliber
All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream. - Edgar Allan Poe
The soul would have no rainbow if the eyes had no tears. - Minquass Indian Proverb
"I weep for you," the walrus said, "I deeply sympathize." Then he sorted those of the largest size and held his handkerchief to his streaming eyes. - Lewis Carroll (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland)
I took my Power in my hand
And went against the World ~
'Twas not so much as David had,
But I was twice as bold.
I aimed my pebble ~ but myself
was all the one that fell ~
Was it Goliath was too large ~
Or was myself too small?
- Emily Dickinson
Define the Universe and give three examples. - Anonymous Graffiti
Do not go gentle into that goodnight. - Dylan Thomas
We are the music-makers
And we are the dreamers of dreams,
Wandering by lone sea-breakers,
And sitting by desolate streams.
World losers and world forsakers
On whom the pale moon gleams;
Yet we are the movers and the shakers
Of the world forever, it seems.
- Arthur William Edgar O'Shaughnessy
A friend is one before whom I may think aloud. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is nothing good or bad but thinking makes it so. - William Shakespeare
Under the wide and starry sky
Dig my grave and let me lie
Glad did I live and gladly die
That I lay me down with a will.
This be the verse that you grave for me:
Here he lies where he longed to be
Home is the sailor, home from the sea
And the hunter home from the hill.
- Robert Louis Stevenson (Requiem)
The unexamined life is not worth living. - Socrates
Friendship is a sheltering tree. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The mediator between the brain and the muscle must be the heart. - Thea von Harleau
To be nobody - but yourself - in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else, means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight, and never stop fighting. - e. e. cummings
I am not what I think I am. I am not what you think I am. I am what I think you think I am. Aaron Blieberg & Harry Leubling
The belief that one's own view of reality is the only reality is the most dangerous of all illusions. - Paul Watzlavich
Dreams are real while they last ~ can we say more of life? - Havelock Ellis
Sir, I admit to your general rule, that every poet is a fool, but you yourself may serve to show it, that every fool is not a poet. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born. - Anais Nin
Hold fast to dreams
For if dreams die,
Life is a broken-winged bird
that cannot fly.
Hold fast to dreams
For if dreams go,
Life is a barren field
frozen with snow.
- Langston Hughes
Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking together in the same direction. - Antoine de Saint Exupery
+ Parting is all we know of Heaven, and all we need of Hell. - Emily Dickinson +
If you live in the river, you should make friends with the crocodile. - Italian Proverb
Begin to weave and God will give you the thread. - German Proverb
Learn the motions of the mind,
Why you are made, for what you are designed,
And the great moral end of humankind.
Study thyself, what rank, or what degree
The wise Creator has ordained for thee:
And all the offices of that estate
Perform, and with thy prudence guide thy fate.
- Unknown
Always remember the distinction between contribution and commitment. Take the matter of bacon and eggs. The chicken makes a contribution - the pig makes a commitment. - John Mack Carter
All my words come back to me in shades of mediocrity . . . - Paul Simon
The poets and philosophers before me discovered the unconscious; what I discovered was the scientific method by which the unconscious can be studied. - Sigmund Frued
Amazing how songs come from a bottle of beer, a few friends, and a lifetime of fears. - Amy Ray
We cannot kill time without injuring eternity. - Henry David Thoreau
He drew a circle that shut me out ~ heretic, rebel, a thing to flout. But love and I had the will to win; We drew a circle that took him in. - Edwin Markham
O Lord, how many read the Word, and yet from vice are not deterred. - Anonymous
Paper has more patience than people do. - Anne Frank
Life is ever, since man was born, licking honey from a thorn. - Louis Ginsburg
Life is a handful of short stories, pretending to be a novel. - Anonymous
Words are the most subtle symbols we have, and our human fabric depends on them. - Iris Murdoch
Since the house is on fire, let us warm ourselves. - Italian Proverb
We turn not older with years, but newer every day. - Emily Dickinson
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. - Yevgeny Yevtushenko
This is the posture of fortune's slave: one foot in the gravy, one foot in the grave. - James Thurber
To forget one's ancestors is to be a tree without a root. - Chinese Proverb
Be careless in your dress if you must, but keep a tidy soul. - Mark Twain
Books are portable pieces of thought. - Susan Sontag
Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty. - John Philpot Curran
Inject a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless dough of existence. - O. Henry
After a certain number of years, out faces become our biographies. - Cynthia Ozick
I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it. - Voltaire
It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
My friends are my estate. - Emily Dickinson
How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world. - William Shakespeare
With him for a sire and her for a dam ~ what should I be but just what I am? - Edna St. Vincent Millay
Language is the archives of history - language is fossil poetry. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Good as it is to inherit a library, it is better to collect one. - Augustine Birrell
For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life. - William Blake
Life itself is the proper binge. - Julia Child
The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing. - Marcus Aurelius
I'm not afraid of death. It's the stake one puts up in order to play the game of life. - John Giraudoux
The sparrow is sorry for the peacock at the burden of its tail. - Rabindranath Tagore
He who confronts the paradoxical exposes himself to reality. - Friedrich Durrenmatt
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail. - John Donne
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