There is a power in public opinion in this country—and I thank God for it: for it is the most honest and best of all powers—which will not tolerate an incompetent or unworthy man to hold in his weak or wicked hands the lives and fortunes of his fellow-citizens.
Martin Van Buren
"I am awaiting perpetually and forever a renaissance of wonder"
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
TO TRUMP people are like kleenex. Pulls one out of the box, uses them and throws them away. Ari Melber MSNBC
I believe cats to be spirits come to earth. A cat, I am sure, could walk on a cloud without coming through.
Jules Verne
"Against the ruin of the world, there is only one defense: the creative act."
Kenneth Rexroth
Empty vessels make the most noise.
I think Plato might have said this or something similar, nevertheless no truer saying.
In the case of news, we should always wait for the sacrament of confirmation.
Voltaire
"Night, the beloved. Night, when words fade and things come alive. When the destructive analysis of day is done, and all that is truly important becomes whole and sound again. When man reassembles his fragmentary self and grows with the calm of a tree."
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
To me, the black black woman is our essential mother--the blacker she is the more us she is--and to see the hatred that is turned on her is enough to make me despair, almost entirely, of our future as a people.
Alice Walker
"When a man does not admit that he is an animal, he is less than an animal. Not more but less."
Michael McClure
"What does the money machine eat? It eats youth, spontaneity, life, beauty, and, above all, it eats creativity. It eats quality and sh*ts quantity."
William S. Burroughs
"We have to raise the consciousness; the only way poets can change the world is to raise the consciousness of the general populace."
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
The human mind is inspired enough when it comes to inventing horrors; it is when it tries to invent a Heaven that it shows itself cloddish.
Evelyn Waugh
"The importance of lethal microbes in human history is well illustrated by Europeans’ conquest and depopulation of the New World. Far more Native Americans died in bed from Eurasian germs than on the battlefield from European guns and swords. Those germs undermined Indian resistance by killing most Indians and their leaders and by sapping the survivors’ morale."
Jared Diamond, "Guns, Germs And Steel"
It had been startling and disappointing to me to find out that story books had been written by people, that books were not natural wonders, coming of themselves like grass.
Eudora Welty
@edgarblythe,
We are already in the darkness. The 64 thousand dollar question is whether our country will be able to see light again at the end of the Trump tunnel.
“If I had foreseen Hiroshima and Nagasaki, I would have torn up my formula in 1905.” –Albert Einstein
“All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions.” - W.B. Yeats.
There is no such thing as conversation. It is an illusion. There are intersecting monologues, that is all.
Rebecca West
