Rosalva Aguilar Quotes & Sayings

The poem is a cry of the unborn heart. Yes, because the poem perfectly embodies the world, there is no world without poem. — E.L. Doctorow

ONE Monday, May 2, 2005 — Jonas Jonasson

Men are too unstable to be just; they are crabbed because they have not passed water at the usual time, or testy because they have not been stroked or praised. — Edward Dahlberg

In the future, we've forgotten it. It's disappointing to find out that the past is the present is the future. Nobody wants that. And yet, that's what it is. Maybe it's a kind of surrealist move, to use language like "post-racial" - thinking that if you create the language for it, it will happen. I wish it worked that way. But that's not our reality. — Claudia Rankine

Wouldn't this old world be better
If the folks we meet would say:
'I know something good about you,'
And then treat us that way? — N. Eldon Tanner

The science of legislation is like that of medicine in one respect: that it is far more easy to point out what will do harm than what will do good. — Charles Caleb Colton

Man lives by habits indeed, but what he lives for is thrill and excitements ... From time immemorial war has been ... the supremely thrilling excitement. — William James

And finally comes culture, which is entertainment, relaxation, transport out of the pain of living. — John Steinbeck