Hamilton Porter Quotes & Sayings

Tonight's forecast: DARK. Continued mostly dark tonight, turning to wildly scattered light in the morning — George Carlin

The only people who still read poetry are poets, and they mostly read their own. — Barbara Holland

I don't want to be a star - most of the ones I know are too unhappy. — Vivian Vance

No reproach is like that we clothe in a smile, and present with a bow. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

In work, do what you enjoy. — Laozi

I believe that Gaston Cleric narrowly missed being a great poet, and I have sometimes thought that his outbursts of imaginative talk were fatal to his poetic gift. He squandered too much in the heat of personal communication. How often have I seen him draw his dark brows together, fix his eyes upon some object on the wall or a figure in the carpet, and then flash into the lamplight the very image that was in his brain. — Willa Cather

The difference between mad people and sane people ... is that sane people have variety when they talk-story. Mad people have only one story that they talk over and over. — Maxine Hong Kingston

A garden is a grand teacher ... above all it teaches entire trust. — Gertrude Jekyll

Wind-voice looked in amazement at the sword in his claws. "I - I'll keep it safe," he muttered to Winger. "For the hero, when he comes ... "
Winger was smiling a light, dreamy smile that radiated all over his thin face. "The hero is here, Wind-voice," he said, awed. "You're the hero. — Nancy Yi Fan

You are one of my nicest thoughts. — Georgia O'Keeffe

It almost felt like we were driving in our own world
like we were inside a snow globe
and there was music and sunlight and smiles and laughter floating in the air. And it was all self-contained in a beautiful bubble filled with glittering water that made things seem a little unreal, a little dream-like and hazy. — Melissa C. Walker