Valoarea Maxima Quotes & Sayings

One of Still Lifes many achievements is its paradoxical mix of intensity and stillness. Alexander Longs visions of landscape, identity and "History itself, a joke that no one gets" are simultaneously meditative and alert, restless and focused. This is a smart, compassionate poet. Still Life is a mesmerizing new book. — Terrance Hayes

I thought: pity the poor in spirit who know neither the enchantment nor the beauty of language. — Muriel Barbery

I miss a lot about England when I'm working away, even the slate grey skies. — Sean Bean

When the impossibility of replacing a person is realized, it allows the responsibility which a man has for his existence and its continuance to appear in all its magnitude. — Viktor E. Frankl

Pansies in soft April rains Fill their stalks with honeyed sap Drawn from Earth's prolific lap. — Bayard Taylor

There are no lazy veteran lion hunters. — Norman Ralph Augustine

If I be just a page torn out of a book,
May I sail forever over the oceans blue,
Float over the treetops and the mountains too,
Drift across the valleys and the flowers look,
Until at last, I rest and kiss the morning dew. — Nancy B. Brewer

Nothing is more common in an age like this, when books abound, than to fancy that the gratification of a love of reading is real study. — John Henry Newman

With the ambitions, to seize the opportunity to win is your big loss. — Auliq Ice