An ABC of Quotes for these Times
Maya Angelo: Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.
Gwendolyn Brooks: We are each other's magnitude and bond.
G.K.Chesterton: Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
John Donne: Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
Ralph Waldo Emerson: Be an opener of doors.
Tu Fu : One day soon,
At the summit, the other mountains will be
Small enough to hold, all in a single glance
Nikki Giovanni: Ain’t they got no shame?
Langston Hughes: That Justice is a blind goddess
Is a thing to which we black are wise:
Her bandage hides two festering sores
That once perhaps were eyes.
Henrik Ibsen: The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom - these are the pillars of society.
James Joyce: I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.
Jane Kenyon: Let it come, as it will, and don’t
be afraid. God does not leave us
comfortless, so let evening come.
C.S.Lewis : The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.
Marianne Moore: There never was a war that was not inward; I must fight till I have conquered in myself what causes war.
Pablo Neruda: You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming.
Mary Oliver :To live in this world, you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go.
Marge Piercy :Let the silence still us so you may show us your shining
And we can out of that stillness rise and praise.
Salvador Quasimodo: Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal which the reader recognizes as his own.
Muriel Rekeyser : The world is made of stories, not atoms.
William Stafford: I have woven a parachute out of everything broken.
J.R.R. Tolkien: It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.
Miguel de Unamuno: You are waiting for my words. You know me well, and know I cannot remain silent for long. Sometimes, to remain silent is to lie, since silence can be interpreted as assent.
Andrei Voznesensky:In my land and yours they do hit the hay
and sleep the whole night in a similar way.
There's the golden Moon with a double shine.
It lightens your land and it lightens mine.
Emanuel Xavier :It was a gay priest who read last rites
to firefighters as towers collapsed
William Butler Yeats: Take, if you must, this little bag of dreams, Unloose the cord, and they will wrap you round.
Roger Zelazny: Even a mirror will not show you yourself, if you do not wish to see.
Gwendolyn Brooks: We are each other's magnitude and bond.
G.K.Chesterton: Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
John Donne: Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
Ralph Waldo Emerson: Be an opener of doors.
Tu Fu : One day soon,
At the summit, the other mountains will be
Small enough to hold, all in a single glance
Nikki Giovanni: Ain’t they got no shame?
Langston Hughes: That Justice is a blind goddess
Is a thing to which we black are wise:
Her bandage hides two festering sores
That once perhaps were eyes.
Henrik Ibsen: The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom - these are the pillars of society.
James Joyce: I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.
Jane Kenyon: Let it come, as it will, and don’t
be afraid. God does not leave us
comfortless, so let evening come.
C.S.Lewis : The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.
Marianne Moore: There never was a war that was not inward; I must fight till I have conquered in myself what causes war.
Pablo Neruda: You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming.
Mary Oliver :To live in this world, you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go.
Marge Piercy :Let the silence still us so you may show us your shining
And we can out of that stillness rise and praise.
Salvador Quasimodo: Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal which the reader recognizes as his own.
Muriel Rekeyser : The world is made of stories, not atoms.
William Stafford: I have woven a parachute out of everything broken.
J.R.R. Tolkien: It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.
Miguel de Unamuno: You are waiting for my words. You know me well, and know I cannot remain silent for long. Sometimes, to remain silent is to lie, since silence can be interpreted as assent.
Andrei Voznesensky:In my land and yours they do hit the hay
and sleep the whole night in a similar way.
There's the golden Moon with a double shine.
It lightens your land and it lightens mine.
Emanuel Xavier :It was a gay priest who read last rites
to firefighters as towers collapsed
William Butler Yeats: Take, if you must, this little bag of dreams, Unloose the cord, and they will wrap you round.
Roger Zelazny: Even a mirror will not show you yourself, if you do not wish to see.
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