Meireles Quotes & Sayings

Freedom - that word that the human spirit feeds: that no one can explain, and anyone who does not understand. — Cecilia Meireles

I just tried to keep my cool and continue with my race plan: to win. — Mark Spitz

O deaf and mute
and blind and beautiful and interminable rose
who into time, attar and verse transmute — Cecilia Meireles

Gerry?' Laurel had to strain to hear thought the noise on the other end of the line. 'Gerry? Where are you?'
'London. A phone booth on Fleet Street.'
'The city still has working phone booths?'
'It would appear so. Unless this is the Tardis, in which case I'm in serious trouble. — Kate Morton

The loves and hours of the life of a man,
They are swift and sad, being born of the sea. — Algernon Charles Swinburne

They didn't act like people and they didn't act like actors. It's hard to explain. They acted more like they knew they were celebrities and all. I mean they were good, but they were too good. — J.D. Salinger

You are not getting older; you are getting wiser. — Debasish Mridha

have to be on the cross and bleeding in order to have soul. They want you half mad, dribbling down your shirt front. I've had enough of the cross, my tank is full of that. If I can stay off the cross, I still have plenty to run on. Too much. Let them get on the cross, I'll congratulate them. But pain doesn't create writing, a writer does. — Charles Bukowski

The more we loved, the more we lost ourselves. — Karen White

Sweeping, confident articles on the future seem to me, intellectually, the most disreputable of all forms of public utterance. — Kenneth Clark

I have gone over to the dork side. — Linda Urban

Cash said in return, "I'm a songwriter. I use my imagination. The important thing is the message of the song, not the imagery. — Robert Hilburn

What a pity when editors review a woman's book, that they so often fall into the error of reviewing the woman instead. — Fanny Fern