“We don’t read and write poetry because it’s cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive [...]
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What will your verse be?
Posted in Favorite Quotes on August 21, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Your estimate …
Posted in Favorite Quotes on August 20, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
“If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.”
-Marcus Aurelius
Imagination encircles the world …
Posted in Favorite Quotes on August 19, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
“I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.”
-Albert Einstein
We are all inventors …
Posted in Favorite Quotes on August 19, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
“We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
