Acetates Alba Quotes & Sayings

You told me trees could speak
and the only reason one heard
silence in the forest
was that they had all been born knowing different languages.

That night I went into the forest
to bury dictionaries under roots,
so many books in so many tongues
as to insure speech.

and now this very moment,
the forest seems alive
with whispers and murmurs and rumblings of sound
wind-rushed into my ears.

I do not speak any language
that crosses the silence around me
but how soothing to know
that the yearning and grasping embodied
in trees' convoluted and startling shapes
is finally being fulfilled
in their wind shouts to each other.

Yet we who both speak English
and have since we were born
are moving ever farther apart
even as branch tips touch. — Carol Goodman

Old gardeners never die; they just very slowly turn into the most magnificent compost. But what a marvellous, active brew it is! — Peter Cundall

To become a better you, admit that you were not born for the floor. Refuse to embrace mediocrity anytime anywhere. — Israelmore Ayivor

That haunting longing for the moon returned. Stronger, broader, flavoured with all the bone-deep desire only a nocturnal creature could feel for their sole light-giver, the lonely satellite that watched over them when the rest of the daylight world abandoned them. — L.J. Hayward

I'm trying to see the magic in everyday miracles now: the fact that my heart still beats, that I can lift my feet off of the earth to walk and that there is something in me worthy of love. — Katja Millay

The name on the front is a hell of a lot more important than the one on the back. — Herb Brooks

To give my next novel balance, I'm going to begin it with "The start" followed by a dozen carriage returns. It offsets the words, "The end. — Michael Kroft

Yes, I hid in my closet to read. Who didn't? — Dana Marie Bell

I'm sorry you were not truly loved and that it made you cruel. — Warsan Shire

Don't let strangers touch you. And yet it is seldom strangers, I learned long before I was a teenager, who do you harm. It is always the ones closest to us: the suave chauffeur, the skilled photographer, the kind music teacher, the good friend's sober and dignified husband, the pious man of God. They are the ones your parents trust, whom they don't want to believe anything against. — Azar Nafisi

It has always been my ambition to die in harness with my head face down on a keyboard and my nose caught between two of the keys. — Isaac Asimov

Bolivians die with rotted lungs so that the world may consume cheap tin. — Eduardo Galeano

By silencing the mind, we can experience real peace. As long as various kinds of thoughts agitate the brain, we don't experience 100 percent peace. — Henepola Gunaratana

It's a deft trick to turn American exceptionalism into an exceptional political tactic. — Ron Fournier