Melissinos Poet Quotes & Sayings

I heard the other day of a man who paid a psychologist $50 to cure him of an inferiority complex - and later was fined $25 and costs for talking back to a traffic cop. — Shelley Berman

Works that have a certain imperfection to them have an appeal for that very reason - or at least they appeal to certain types of people. Just like you're attracted to Soseki's The Miner. There's something in it that draws you in, more than more fully realized novels like Kokoro or Sanshiro. You discover something about that work that tugs at your heart - or maybe we should say the work discovers you. Schubert's Sonata in D Major is sort of the same thing. — Haruki Murakami

The gods love to fuck with us. — Lauren Groff

There's a film you write, there's a film you shoot, and there's a film that you cut - and they're all different. — Paul Greengrass

Anonymous comments? You're not in the arena, man. If you can't say it to me in person in front of my kids, don't say it. — Brene Brown

I find the erotic such a kernel within myself. When released from its intense and constrained pellet, it flows through and colors my life with a kind of energy that heightens and sensitizes and strengthens all my experience. — Audre Lorde

As ever, books remained a medium through which Theodore and Edith connected and interpreted larger world. — Doris Kearns Goodwin

I feel that the dormant goodwill in people needs to be stirred. People need to hear that it makes sense to behave decently or to help others, to place common interests above their own, to respect the elementary rules of human coexistence. — Vaclav Havel