Uboldi Vineyards Quotes & Sayings

To a Poet"

Let verse of yours be flexible, but strong,
Strong as a poplar under valley's cover,
Strong as the earth under a plough, long,
Strong as a girl, who never knew a lover.

Reliably preserve severity at length,
Your verse need not be fluttering or booming,
Although the Muse has very easy steps,
She's not a dancer, but a goddess, ruling.

Frolicsome din of interrupted rhymes --
Temptation for decline, so free and so easy --
Just leave for use by jokers in a dance
On city streets for people who aren't busy.

And going out on the sacred paths,
Bring to melodiousness your chosen damnation.
You know, she's a mistress of the mass,
She craves embraces, as a dearth -- donations. — Nikolay Gumilev

Then the sun came up and shook the night chill out of the air the way you'd shake a rug. — John Steinbeck

The genuine history of mankind is the history of ideas. It is
ideas that distinguish man from all other beings. Ideas
engender social institutions, political changes, technologi-
cal methods of production, and all that is called economic
conditions. — Ludwig Von Mises

Pape called Basil his sanctuary. In truth we all exist in our own sanctuaries-but I don't mean cathedrals or prisons. I'm talking about our hearts and minds, which imprison us in anxiety, dear, insecurity, anger and other forms of misery. The walls & bars that keep most in a constant state of suffering are thoughts and emotions, not concrete & steel. It's a disease. Insanity. Most are afflicted by it, regardless of which side of the law they find themselves on or where they lay their heads at night. To be free of this, Renee, is to be free indeed. — Ted Dekker

Don't allow your emotions to get in the way of clearheaded decisions about what's best for you. — Ken Weber

I don't believe in 50 friends. I believe in a smaller number. Nor do I care about society events. It's the most senseless use of time. — Dietrich Mateschitz

Those who are growing great are always asking "why?" If they fail or lose, they ask "why?" If they succeed or win too, they ask "why? — Israelmore Ayivor

He is always there, and the reasonable side of me always makes sure to push him down as far as I can. I notice it, but I always make sure to ignore it. — Melissa Grijalva

At the time I wasn't even sure what she meant - what does anyone do? We mark time until we die. She was still waiting for an answer. My roommate filled the silence. "He's a writer," he said. "Oh," she said. "What does he write about?" "His dick." She gave me a sharp look and said, "That sounds like pornography." "No," my roommate said. "If he writes about other people's dicks, it's porn. But if it's his own, it's art. — Chris Offutt

We used to think that if we knew one, we knew two, because one and one are two. We are finding that we must learn a great deal more about 'and. — Arthur Stanley Eddington

purple does something strange to me — Charles Bukowski

I was the punk outsider who nobody messed with. I was fearless. At 16, I graduated and moved out. — Angelina Jolie

All the air power in the world was of little use when what they were really fighting was an ideology, not a conventional army. Our — Christina Lamb

His words had fingers, and as he spoke, they drifted down my body, fondling me and arousing me. — C.D. Reiss

Believe flatterers and you're lost; believe your enemies and you despair. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach