Sayward Tree Quotes & Sayings

Every encounter we experience in life comes to teach us something. — Euginia Herlihy

If, at a party, I say I'm a poet, people have a hard time responding, almost as if I'd said I'm a priest. — Tobias Hill

I'm developing the stuff all the time. There's a film in my head. I'm imagining a film. — Mike Leigh

No tears, please. It's a waste of good suffering. — Clive Barker

I won't start the battle, but if it comes, I'll finish it. — Jennifer A. Nielsen

For such is the noble nature of man, that his heart will never wholly lose itself in one single passion or idol, or, as people call it apologetically, one idea. On it goes from one devotion to the next, not because it is ashamed of its first love, but because it must be on fire perpetually. To fall for Reason, as our grandfathers did, is but one Fall of Man among his many passionate attempts to find the apples of knowledge and eternal life, both in one.
When a nation, or individual, declines the experiences that present themselves to passionate hearts only, they are automatically turned out from the realm of history. The heart of man either falls in love with somebody or something, or it falls ill. It can never go unoccupied. And the great question for mankind Is what is to be loved or hated next, whenever an old love or fear has lost its hold. — Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy

You are almost not free, if you are teaching a group of graduate students, to become friends with one of them. I don't mean anything erotically charged, just a friendship. — Marilyn Hacker

When people find out what it is that's ticking in them, they get straightened out. — Joseph Campbell