Reposera Quotes & Sayings

At another level, though, poems can craft an eraser - we can't revise the past, but poems allow us some malleability, an increased freedom of response, comprehension, feeling. Choice, what choices are possible for any given person, is another theme that's run through my work from the start. — Jane Hirshfield

I never dreamed of such happiness as this, while I was an ugly duckling. — Hans Christian Andersen

He was bald-headed except for a little fringe of rust-colored hair and his face was nearly the same color as the unpaved roads and washed like them with ruts and gullys. — Flannery O'Connor

Philosophers stretch the meaning of words until they retain scarcely anything of their original sense. They give the name of "God" to some vague abstraction which they have created for themselves; having done so they can pose before all the world as deists, as believers of God, and they can even boast that they have recognized a higher, purer concept of God, notwithstanding that their God is not nothing more than an insubstantial shadow and no longer the mighty personality of religious doctrines. — Sigmund Freud

The belief that peace is desirable is rarely enough to achieve it. Peace requires responsibility. Peace entails sacrifice. — Barack Obama

you have to be so genuinely uncategorizable that the normal terms of identity don't even apply to you. — Hanya Yanagihara

Some people come into your life and change it forever. — Sarah Addison Allen