Canzoni Quotes & Sayings

As there is no narrative, his poetry has been described as lyrical. As A. J. Smith observes, 'The most directly influential body of lyric poetry in European literature Il Canzoniere of Petrarch consists of some three hundred and eighty sonnets, madrigals and canzoni, sensitively registering every nuance of the poet's forty-seven-year devotion to one Laura. — Brenda Liddy

I had forgotten how awful it was to be a woman alone
the leering glances, the catcalls, the offers of help which you dared not accept for fear of incurring a sexual debt. The awful sense of vulnerability. No wonder I had gone from man to man and always wound up married. How could I have left Bennett? How could I have forgotten? — Erica Jong

I had the chance to make every possible mistake and figure out a way to recover from it. Once you realize there is life after mistakes, you gain a self-confidence that never goes away. — Bob Schieffer

It broke my heart into more pieces than my heart was made of, why can't people say what they mean at the time? — Jonathan Safran Foer

Wisdom is the power to perceive the best ends to aim at and the best means for reaching those ends. — Wallace D. Wattles

The most important thing that a father can do for his children is to love their mother. — Theodore M. Hesburgh

I love to learn; I really do. We'd study something in class, and I'd take it outside of class and become, like, obsessive and just research everything. — Mary-Kate Olsen

Just as I could not imagine a world in stereo depth, an individual with normal normal stereopsis cannot experience the worldview of a person who has always lacked steropsis. This may be surprising because you can eliminate clues from stereopsis simply by closing one eye. What's more, many people do not notice a great difference when viewing the world with one eye or two. When a normal binocular viewer closes one eye, however, he or she still uses a lifetime of past visual experiences to re-create the missing stereo information. — Susan Barry

If you choose to be obedient to God, God meets you with divine enablement. — Johnny Hunt

Dreams never die - they change — Robert J. Braathe

There is the subtler music, the clear light
Where time burns back about th'eternal embers.
We are not shut from the thousand heavens:
Lo, there are many gods whom we have seen,
Folk of unearthly fashion, places splendid,
Bulwarks of beryl and of chrysophrase.
Sapphire Benacus, in thy mists and thee
Nature herself's turned metaphysical,
Who can look at that blue and not believe? — Ezra Pound

An artist who conforms to conventional ideas is nothing but a mere charlatan. — Michael Bassey Johnson

Fain would I kiss my Julia's dainty leg, Which is as white and hairless as an egg. — Robert Herrick

I'll be goddamned if I'm going to stay in a business where I have to get up earlier and earlier and it takes longer and longer for me to get in front of a camera. — Grace Kelly

Prosperity may be found in small as in big business. — I.L. Peretz

If we knew how to listen to God, we should hear him speaking to us, for God does speak. He speaks in his Gospel; he speaks also through life - that new Gospel to which we ourselves add a page each day. — Michel Quoist