Nakayasu Poet Quotes & Sayings

I like the idea of isolation, I like the idea of solitude. You can be connected and have a phone and still be lonely. — Paul Theroux

How can you tell when a piece is finished?'I asked.
'You can't,' he said flatly. 'All you can tell is when you can't do any more to it. And then you need to stop because if you don't, you will spoil it. — Mary Hoffman

The best pilots have need of mariners, besides sails, anchor and other tackle. — Ben Jonson

I'm very staid compared to my students, actually. — Kathy Acker

Search is essential to every service that Yahoo offers. — David Filo

Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made. — Gore Vidal

I care not for the theoretical symmetry and impregnable logic of your moral code, I care not for the hoary respectability and traditional mysticisms of your theological institutions, I care not for the beauty and solemnity of your rituals and religious ceremonies, I care not even for the reasonableness and unimpeachable fairness of your social ethics,
if it does not turn out better, nobler, truer, men and women,
if it does not add to the world's stock of valuable souls,
if it does not give us a sounder, healthier, more reliable product from this great factory of men
I will have none of it. — Anna Julia Cooper