Kirtan Rabbi Quotes & Sayings

We are a nation of 20 million bathrooms, with a humanist in every tub. — Mary McCarthy

Clary found herself wondering if the forsaken were edible. — Cassandra Clare

Everything has to be pulling weight in a short story for it to be really of the first order. — Tobias Wolff

Between the idea and the reality falls the shadow — T. S. Eliot

Do they think their life would be over if I wasn't here? — Jodi Ellen Malpas

Man hath still either toys or care: But hath no root, nor to one place is tied, but ever restless and irregular, about this earth doth run and ride. He knows he hath a home, but scarce knows where; He says it is so far, that he has quite forgot how to go there. — Henry Vaughan

Shakespeare acquired more essential history from Plutarch than most men could from the whole British Museum. What is to be insisted upon is that the poet must develop or procure the consciousness of the past and that he should continue to develop this consciousness throughout his career. 8
What happens is a continual surrender of himself as he is at the moment to something which is more valuable. The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality. 9
There remains to define this process of depersonalization and its relation to the sense of tradition. It is in this depersonalization that art may be said to approach the condition of science. — T. S. Eliot