Diapasons Quotes & Sayings

An early-rising man is a good spouse but a bad husband. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Music and herb go together. It's been a long time now I smoke herb. From 1960's, when I first start singing. — Bob Marley

We are quick to forget that just being alive is an extraordinary piece of good luck, a remote event, a chance occurrence of monstrous proportions. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

There is a rule in Hell: Don't trust anyone who takes time out of their day to help you. — Heather Heffner

Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man. Not in him but off from him things are grotesque or eccentric or fail of their sanity. — Walt Whitman

And we may be led, then, upward through more
Powerful forms of poetry, past columns
With peeling posters on them, to the country of indifference.
Meanwhile if the swell diapasons, blooms
Unhappily and too soon, the little people are nonetheless real. — John Ashbery

We establish a connection with the unknown through the act of giving something and, paradoxically, the act of destroying something. That is what is behind sacrifice. What you offer and what you destroy, it is that surplus which is life itself. — Roberto Calasso