Ismene Flower Quotes & Sayings

It is always the person not in the predicament who knows what ought to have been done in it, and would unquestionably have done it too — Charles Dickens

XVII (I do not love you ... )
I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.
I love you as the plant that never blooms
but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers;
thanks to your love a certain solid fragrance,
risen from the earth, lives darkly in my body.
I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where.
I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride;
so I love you because I know no other way — Pablo Neruda

A good half of the effort of understanding what the Indian philosophers were after - and their subtleties make most of the great European philosophers look like schoolboys. — T. S. Eliot

I beg my reader to consider the "evidence" I provide for my case and perhaps feel persuaded as a result. Beyond that I make no claim. — Paul Fry

All I know about method is that when I am not working I sometimes think I know something, but when I am working, it is quite clear I know nothing. — John Cage

Mrs. Darling to May Pentecost who showed Mrs. Darling her room:
"I shall unpack my china in here, if your husband will be kind enough to bring it up. I do think it's important to be surrounded by pretty things, don't you? — Eric Malpass