Susan Sontag (January 16, 1933 – December 28, 2004)
Time exists in order that everything doesn’t happen all at once … and space exists so that it doesn’t all happen to you.
Month: May 2019
Lincoln Steffens On Knowledge
Lincoln Steffens (April 6, 1866–August 9, 1936)
It is our knowledge — the things we are sure of — that makes the world go wrong and keeps us from seeing and learning.
Homer Simpson On Life
Homer SimpsonThree sentences will get you through life. Number one, ‘Cover for me.’ Number two, ‘Oh, good idea, Boss.’ Number three, ‘It was like that when I got here.’
Niels Bohr On Religion
Niels Bohr (October 7, 1885–November 18, 1962)
The fact that religions through the ages have spoken in images, parables, and paradoxes means simply that there are no other ways of grasping the reality to which they refer, but that does not mean that it is not a genuine reality. And splitting this reality into an objective and a subjective side won’t get us very far.
Virginia Woolf On The Unknown
Virginia Woolf (January 25, 1882 – March 28, 1941)
Making the unknown—known—in terms of one’s medium is all-absorbing—if you stop to think of the form—as form you are lost—The artist’s form must be inevitable—You mustn’t even think you won’t succeed—Whether you succeed or not is irrelevant—there is no such thing. Making your unknown known is the important thing—and keeping the unknown always beyond you—catching crystallizing your simpler clearer version of life—only to see it turn stale compared to what you vaguely feel ahead—that you must always keep working to grasp—the form must take care of its self if you can keep your vision clear.
Adyashanti On Loving
Adyashanti (October 26, 1962 -)
To be loving isn’t to be perfect — it’s to be connected and warm with both ourselves and others. It’s to be residing in the humble heart.
Jane Hirshfield On Poetry
Jane Hirshfield (February 24, 1953 -)
I don’t think poetry is based just on poetry; it is based on a thoroughly lived life. And so I couldn’t just decide I was going to write no matter what; I first had to find out what it means to live.
