Favourite Quotes and Quotations

[Kim L.]

"This Is Just To Say"

I have eaten
the plums
that were in
the icebox

and which
you were probably
saving
for breakfast

Forgive me
they were delicious
so sweet
and so cold

Williams Carlos Williams, MD

[Becks19]

Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings. ~Salvador Dali~

[fushingfeef]

"You can't stop the waves from crashing onto the shore, so you might as well learn to surf."
-Me!

[smerdyakov]

"This Is Just To Say"

I have eaten
the plums
that were in
the icebox

and which
you were probably
saving
for breakfast

Forgive me
they were delicious
so sweet
and so cold

Williams Carlos Williams, MD

mmmm. I could always taste those plums.

[the_last_gunslinger]

Mark Twain is one of my favorites when it comes to quotes. Here's one on foolishness:

"It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt."

And here's one on literature:

"A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read."

Now a couple on religion:

"Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are those I do understand."

"But who prays for Satan? Who in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most, our one fellow and brother who most needed a friend yet had not a single one, the one sinner among us all who had the highest and clearest right to every Christian's daily and nightly prayers, for the plain and unassailable reason that his was the first and greatest need, he being among sinners the supremest?"

Okay, that's all for me.

[smerdyakov]

Kim L., you've caused me to blow the dust off my wcw book. Thank you. You know how books will sometimes open by their own volition, as if they know what you're looking to read (one more argument for books vs. ereaders)? Well, this one opened to an old favorite:

A Sort of Song

Let the snake wait under
his weed
and the writing
be of words, slow and quick, sharp
to strike, quiet to wait,
sleepless.

--through metaphor to reconcile
the people and the stones.
Compose. (No ideas
but in things) Invent!
Saxifrage is my flower that splits
the rocks.

aww, should be a writing anthem or something

[frisbee]

Gunslinger - I like Twain a lot too. Another of his that I like is "Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself."

[Oogway]

Blame yourself if you have no branches or leaves;don't accuse the sun of partiality

[Sigmund]

"The New Colossus"

Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,
With conquering limbs astride from land to land;
Here at our sea-washed sunset gates shall stand
A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame
Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name
Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand
Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command
The air-bridged harbour that twin cities frame.

"Keep ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she
With silent lips. "Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore,
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door."

[Kim L.]

Kim L., you've caused me to blow the dust off my wcw book. Thank you. You know how books will sometimes open by their own volition, as if they know what you're looking to read (one more argument for books vs. ereaders)? Well, this one opened to an old favorite:

A Sort of Song

Let the snake wait under
his weed
and the writing
be of words, slow and quick, sharp
to strike, quiet to wait,
sleepless.

--through metaphor to reconcile
the people and the stones.
Compose. (No ideas
but in things) Invent!
Saxifrage is my flower that splits
the rocks.

aww, should be a writing anthem or something

Thank you! Such a great poet.