Academes Quotes & Sayings

My attraction to drugs is based on an immense desire to annihilate awareness. — Anais Nin

Be patient with yourself; trust in the Universe; find mentors; know that you can achieve whatever you set out to do. — Diane L. Dunton

What use is care? What good is watching for that matter? People are forever watching things. They should be seeing. I see the things I look at. I am a see-er. — Patrick Rothfuss

I used to hold a fiery wind
and I tried to determine the direction
where poetry would fly. — Alda Merini

The sun isn't yellow, it's chicken — Bob Dylan

From women's eyes this doctrine I derive:
They sparkle still the right Promethean fire;
They are the books, the arts, the academes,
That show, contain and nourish all the world. — William Shakespeare

One must never forbid oneself anything. One must also be able to go back, one must always be able to change ... — Hans Hartung

The poet's spoken discourse often depends on a mystique, on the spiritual freedom that finds itself enslaved on earth. — Salvatore Quasimodo

To whomever swapped my tattoo cream for toothpaste ... well played. — R.D. Ronald

The computer does things that can't be done with hardware, like freezing sounds. — Keith Fullerton Whitman

The universe begins to look more like a great thought than a great machine. — James Jeans

The most unequivocal sign of contempt for man is to regard everybody merely as a means to one's own ends, or of no account whatever. — Friedrich Nietzsche