Alcides Escobar Quotes & Sayings

Hot flush, raging bluch. Ice flash, instant crash. — Ellen Hopkins

Instead, I remembered that in the Bible, Jesus promised his followers that they would be provided with everything they needed, everything they "needed," but not necessarily everything they wanted. — Jose N. Harris

I would rather be the good aunt who never says anything bad and lets the parents discipline the child. — Ellen DeGeneres

BAD PEOPLE
A man told me once that all the bad people
Were needed. Maybe not all, but your fingernails
You need; they are really claws, and we know
Claws. The sharks - what about them?
They make other fish swim faster. The hard-faced men
In black coats who chase you for hours
In dreams - that's the only way to get you
To the shore. Sometimes those hard women
Who abandon you get you to say, "You."
A lazy part of us is like a tumbleweed.
It doesn't move on its own. Sometimes it takes
A lot of Depression to get tumbleweeds moving.
Then they blow across three or four States.
This man told me that things work together.
Bad handwriting sometimes leads to new ideas;
And a careless god - who refuses to let people
Eat from the Tree of Knowledge - can lead
To books, and eventually to us. We write
Poems with lies in them, but they help a little. — Robert Bly

The attempt to control poetry, to subordinate it to extra-poetic ends, constitutes misuse. — Jan Clausen

I really thought she was going to die before I could tell her that I was going to die, too. — John Greem

Like the hills under
dusk
you fall away
from the light:
you deepen: the green
light darkens
and you are nearly lost:
only so much light as
stars keep
manifests your face:
I feel the total night
in myself rave
for the light along your lips. — A.R. Ammons

Whether you fall
means nothing at all
It's whether you GET UP
It's whether you GET UP! — Tracy Bonham

Firearms are second only to the Constitution in importance; they are the peoples' liberty's teeth — George Washington

Yoga is to find union - between mind and body, between the individual and her God, between our thoughts and the source of our thoughts, between teacher and student.. — Elizabeth Gilbert

Memory is the sense of loss, and loss pulls us after it. — Marilynne Robinson