Maundy Thursday Poetry Quotes & Sayings

The aim of an artist is not to solve a problem irrefutably, but to make people love life in all its countless, inexhaustible manifestations. — Larissa MacFarquhar

The legitimacy of your desires to exist is paramount to manifesting your desires within your reality. — Steven Redhead

The basis of persistence is the Power of Will. — Napoleon Hill

When I'm in heavy-duty writing mode, there's something great about reading a series. Soothing, but not distracting too much. — Lauren Willig

A fish wants to dive from dry land
into the ocean
when it hears the roaring waves.
A falcon wants to return from the forest
to the King's wrist
when it hears the drum beating "Return."
A Sufi, shimmering with light,
wants to dance like a sunbeam
when darkness surrounds him. — Rumi

If you've got craft, you got game. If you got game, you can write your way in and out of anything. Writing is the best gig in the whole business, as far as I'm concerned. It's the only job where you don't have to wait for someone to tell you what to do. You just sit down and make s**t up. — Robert Mark Kamen

Expectations are the first sign of insanity. — Adam Spielman

It was my first scene in any movie and my only scene in Kramer vs. Kramer. I was petrified. — JoBeth Williams

Figuring out what to do with your life is only Half of the equation, the more important half is, whom you are doing it with — Sel

No reporter is flying around in borrowed twin-engine airplanes. — Dee Dee Myers

BOREDOM with established truths is a great enemy of free men. — Bernard Crick

What we forgive too freely doesn't stay forgiven. — Mignon McLaughlin

Vision, in my view, is the cause of the greatest benefit to us, inasmuch as none of the accounts now given concerning the Universe would ever have been given if men had not seen the stars or the sun or the heavens. But as it is, the vision of day and night and of months and circling years has created the art of number and has given us not only the notion of Time but also means of research into the nature of the Universe. From these we have procured Philosophy in all its range, than which no greater boon ever has come or will come, by divine bestowal, unto the race of mortals. — Plato