Spinose Margin Quotes & Sayings

I would ask the people who were generous toward my own work. After class one day a poetry professor said to me, "Hey, there's this guy Basho you would find interesting," and so I found Basho. A fiction teacher told me, "You ought to read Clarice Lispector if you're interested in that sort of in-between stuff," and then Lispector appeared. It's not magic. You just keep your eyes open. — John D'Agata

The truest thing about truth was that it needed to be seen no matter what it was and no matter how it came to you. — Deb Caletti

The rigour of science requires that we distinguish well the undraped figure of Nature itself from the gay-coloured vesture with which we clothe her at our pleasure. — Heinrich Hertz

Nowhere inthe annals of history does the record show a people delivered from bondage bypatience alone. — Robert F. Williams

The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future. — Stephen E. Ambrose

Shootouts are not gunfights of honor, they're gang wars and racial riots. — Jessica Savitch

On any state elections map, the reservations are blue places. Native people are most often progressives, Democrats, and by no means gun-toting vigilantes. — Louise Erdrich

One wonders how far spiritual and political leaders can genuinely lead us without some degree of mystical seeing and action. — Richard Rohr