Bidini Band Quotes & Sayings

Perfect refining is for another world, — Richard Sibbes

I want a book to contain a world - indeed the world. Writing is my main means of engagement with the world and I want the scars of that engagement to be left in the language. — Aleksandar Hemon

Something deep in the human soul awakens as things fall apart. Something in the soul knows that everything in this world can become lost. And something in the soul knows how to survive periods of devastation, disorientation and loss. Descent and falling is the way of the soul from its beginning. We each fell from the womb of life when the waters of the inner sea broke and it came time for us to breathe on our own. — Michael Meade

A poem compresses much in a small space and adds music, thus heightening its meaning. — E.B. White

I had hardly begun to read
I asked how can you ever be sure
that what you write is really
any good at all and he said you can't
you can't you can never be sure
you die without knowing
whether anything you wrote was any good
if you have to be sure don't write — W.S. Merwin

As I see it, we shall never succeed in knowing ourselves unless we seek to know God: let — Teresa Of Avila

If you have any shame, forbear to pluck the beard of a dead lion. — Martial

I'm going to eat your fucking eyeballs and wear your faces when I'm done with you! — Jake Bible

Pleasure is a shadow, wealth is vanity, and power a pageant; but knowledge is ecstatic in enjoyment, perennial in frame, unlimited in space and indefinite in duration. — DeWitt Clinton

But if I were you, I would stand by the nephew. He has more to give. — Jane Austen