Taylor Vaughan Quotes & Sayings

Developing our sympathetic compassion is not only possible but the only reason for us to be here on earth. — George Saunders

No one is immune from the larger events of his or her time - the Depression, World War II, civil rights, Vietnam, the spring of 1989 in China. These events intrude upon our lives and radically affect our directions. — Paul Tsongas

If you have a suspicion in your own breast, keep that suspicion in your own breast. — Charles Dickens

In railway halls, on pavements near the traffic, They beg, their eyes made big by empty staring And only measuring Time , like the blank clock. No, I shall weave no tracery of pen-ornament To make them birds upon my singing tree: Time merely drives these lives which do not live As tides push rotten stuff along the shore. — Stephen Spender

The moral influence of woman over man is almost always salutary. — John Stuart Mill

Being left-handed has its advantages in volleyball. Few people know enough about your spike and serve to give you advice. — John Kessel

The beauty of the natural world lies in the details. — Natalie Angier

Hyesims poems: transformative as walking high granite mountains by moonlight, with fragrant herbs underfoot and a thermos of clear tea in the backpack. Their bedrock is thusness, their images beauty is pellucid and new, their view without limit. The shelf of essential Zen poets for American readers grows larger with this immediately indispensable collection. — Jane Hirshfield