Harman Kaur Quotes & Sayings

If you were walking across a plain, had an honest intention of walking on, and yet kept regressing, then it would be a desperate matter; but since you are scrambling up a cliff, about as steep as you yourself are if seen from below, the regression can only be caused by the nature of the ground, and you must not despair. — Franz Kafka

Is not a critic," asks Professor Stoll, "... a judge, who does not explore his own consciousness, but determines the author's meaning or intention, as if the poem were a will, a contract, or the constitution? — William K. Wimsatt

Matisse draws what I call the essence of the plants. He leaves a shape open. He'll do a leaf and not close it. Everybody used to say, oh, I got it all from Matisse, and I said, 'Not really.' — Ellsworth Kelly

Self-respect
the secure feeling that no one, as yet, is suspicious. — H.L. Mencken

Reading dreams. That's what started her walking down the road. Every day she'd walk a little further: a mile, and come home. Two miles, and come home. One day she just kept on. — Truman Capote

Thirst of wealth no quiet knows, But near the death-bed fierce grows. — Anne Finch

John Clellon Holmes ... and I were sitting around trying to think up the meaning of the Lost Generation and the subsequent existentialism and I said 'You know John, this is really a beat generation'; and he leapt up and said, 'That's it, that's right!' — Jack Kerouac

When I'm playing a part, I can feel all my body playing it; it's like really making love. — Emmanuelle Beart

Just now they kissed, with India coming up close on her toes to see if she could tell yet what there was about a kiss. — Eudora Welty