Cithara Magazine Quotes & Sayings

Language is very tough, though, a tenacity that is backed up by a long history. However it is treated, its autonomy cannot be lost or seriously damaged, even if that treatment is rather rough. It is the inherent right of all writers to experiment with the possibilities of language in every way they can imagine - without that adventurous spirit, nothing new can ever be born. — Haruki Murakami

There is a stage with people we love when we are no longer separate from them, but so close in sympathy that we live through them as directly as through ourselves ... we push back our hair because theirs is in their eyes. — Nan Fairbrother

If Romney were a chair, he'd be a squishy, expensively upholstered easy chair that bore the imprint of whoever last sat on it. — Timothy Noah

He knew that when charging on horseback or making love exhaling was more important than inhaling. — Milorad Pavic

Love is like a mountain with many peaks and each new passion brings in a different view. Don't be afraid to love again and again ... there are better horizons waiting. Climb until you find your perfect sky. — Palle Oswald

I only know that I feel tired, antiquated; I feel as though I had been living a long, long time. — Ivan Turgenev

Sitting in Grandmother's old wicker chair and littering my porch with her foolish young life. — Wallace Stegner

Surely again, to heal men's wounds by music's spell. — Euripides

I consider a good dinner party at our house to be where people drink and eat more than they're meant to. My husband is a really fantastic cook. His mother is Italian and if you walk into our house, we assume you're starving. — Elizabeth Gilbert