Life can give everything to whoever tries to understand and is willing to receive new knowledge.
Christianity does not involve the belief that all things were made for man. it does involve the belief that god loves man and for his sake became man and died.
Simplicity is the glory of expression.
Poetry is for me Eucharistic. You take someone else's suffering into your body, their passion comes into your body, and in doing that you commune, you take communion, you make a community with others.
Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.
I was given a dictionary when I was seven, and I read it because I had nothing else to read. I read it the way you read a book.
Whenever someone who knows you disappears, you lose one version of yourself. Yourself as you were seen, as you were judged to be. Lover or enemy, mother or friend, those who know us construct us, and their several knowings slant the different facets of our characters like diamond-cutter's tools. Each such loss is a step leading to the grave, where all versions blend and end.
Not everyone is capable of madness; and of those lucky enough to be capable, not many have the courage for it.
To put your hands in a river is to feel the chords that bind the earth together.
Never waste your time trying to explain who you are to people who are committed to misunderstanding you.
Every moment is a new beginning.
The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life.
You don't have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body.
As far as the education of children is concerned I think they should be taught not the little virtues but the great ones. Not thrift but generosity and an indifference to money; not caution but courage and a contempt for danger; not shrewdness but frankness and a love of truth; not tact but love for one's neighbor and self-denial; not a desire for success but a desire to be and to know.
All paths cause pain, so to chose the safe over the audacious will not give you less pain, only less beauty.
I find that white people in general, including white liberals and even revolutionaries, are most inclined to call you a racist when they don't want to confront the ugly realities that their racism has created. In their eyes, when you attempt to address those realities from your perspective you become a racist.
To exist is to defy all that threatens you. To be a rebel is not to accumulate a library of subversive books or to dream of fantastic conspiracies or of taking to the hills. It is to make yourself your own law. To find in yourself what counts. To make sure that you’re never “cured” of your youth. To prefer to put everyone up against the wall rather than to remain supine. To pillage whatever can be converted to your law, without concern for appearance.
I think the job of the artist is to remind people of what they have chosen to forget.
There is a great good in returning to a landscape that has had extraordinary meaning in one's life. It happens that we return to such places in our minds irresistibly. There are certain villages and towns, mountains and plains that, having seen them walked in them lived in them even for a day, we keep forever in the mind's eye. They become indispensable to our well-being; they define us, and we say, I am who I am because I have been there, or there.
All television ever did was shrink the demand for ordinary movies. The demand for extraordinary movies increased. If any one thing is wrong with the movie industry today, it is the unrelenting effort to astonish.
Nothing becomes reality in the political life of a nation that was not present in its literature as spirit.
The secret of the demagogue is to make himself as stupid as his audience so they believe they are clever as he.
There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power.
We’re only here for a short while. And I think it’s such a lucky accident, having been born, that we’re almost obliged to pay attention.
Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love.
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