Anzia Mayer Quotes & Sayings

Poetry is the essence of everything, and it's through deep contact with reality and living fully that you reach poetry. Very often I see photographers cultivating the strangeness or awkwardness of a scene, thinking it is poetry. No. Poetry is two elements which are suddenly conflict - a spark between two elements. But it's given very seldom, and you can't look for it. It's like if you look for inspiration. No, it just comes by enriching yourself and living. — Henri Cartier-Bresson

Make your lives extraordinary. — Tom Schulman

We're all looking for a rhythm, a movement that isn't forced, that feels right. I wanted to be more surefooted. I was still searching for the perfect pace. — Katie Kacvinsky

Maybe it is desperation. Maybe we can't let things fall apart without trying. We can't let go of the people we love. — Lauren DeStefano

Every divorce represents a broken dream, a shattered hope, a ruined expectation. — Billy Graham

If you want to know the taste of an orange, you have to taste it; no amount of description can exactly convey its taste to you. Similarly, you cannot properly explain enlightenment to someone who has not experienced it. — Joseph P. Kauffman

To counter-balance the natural humility of motherhood, I garden ... In the garden, more than any place, I really feel successful. — Glenda Jackson

We were created in order to live in Paradise, and Paradise was ordained to serve us.
What was ordained for us has been changed; it is not said
that this has also happened with what was ordained for Paradise. — Franz Kafka