Pastrovici Quotes & Sayings

A poem is a hand, a hook, a prayer. It is a soul in action. — Edward Hirsch

And I remembered now, too, my inadvertent youthful condescension, when the woman had said, apologizing for some information she couldn't recall, "I still remember the coat I wore when I was five, but I have no idea what I ate for breakfast today." I'd laughed and smiled in warm sympathy. How sweet, I had thought, she remembers her coat. She must have loved it not to have forgotten. But the coat wouldn't ask any effort of preservation. Feeling ninety, and no longer five, there would be the real effort. Telling that five-year old girl, in her beautiful coat, You're all finished. Submerged. Obsolete.
We are ghosts of ourselves, and of others, and all of these ghosts appear perfectly real. — Susan Choi

I think in the U.S., the border fence is no longer an immigration issue primarily; it's a security issue. — Duncan Hunter

I have never experienced a sorrow that was not relieved by an hour of reading. — Daniel Pennac

Man is occupied and has been persistently occupied since his separate evolution, with three kinds of struggle: first with the massive, unintelligent forces of nature, heat and cold, winds, rivers, matter and energy; secondly, with the things closer to him, animals and plants, his own body, its health and disease; and lastly, with his desires and fears, his imaginations and stupidities. — J. D. Bernal

I auditioned nine times for 'Delhi Belly,' and it was torturous! — Vir Das

Do you want an extra 44 days a year to do whatever you please? Or, do you want to spend this time aimlessly scrolling through your Facebook newsfeed? — Benjamin Wilson

By and large ... the good's an illusion, little fables folks tell themselves so they can get through their days without screaming too much. — Stephen King

When I first started, my songs were the politics of anger. As I got older and hopefully wiser, I wanted to be part of the politics of answers. — Michael Franti