QUOTATION+INSPIRATION

 How could you want to become new without first becoming ashes?  Nietzsche “Do not read as children do to enjoy themselves, or, as the ambitious do to educate themselves. No, read to live.” ~Gustave Flaubert

"I think it's the duty of the comedian to find out where the line is drawn and cross it deliberately." George Carlin  “And in that moment, I swear we were infinite” ~Stephen Chbosky   film maker Jim Jarmusch: Poets are always ahead of things in a certain way, their sense of language and their vision. pair with : Poets are the hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration; the mirrors of the gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon the present; the words which express what they understand not; the trumpets which sing to battle and feel not what they inspire; the influence which is moved not, but moves. Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world. ~Percy Bysshe Shelley

**“ Be thine own palace, or the world’s thy jail. ” ** "Make voyages. Attempt them. There's nothing else." --Tennessee Williams
 * John Donne **

 I've never know any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage. Schopenhauer

Sir Francis Bacon ||  || If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing. Anatole France ||
 * “Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite.”
 * Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think. Ambrose Bierce ||  ||

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<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #0000ff; display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: left;">You do not have a soul: you are a soul. You have a body. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; text-align: left;">--CS Lewis

//<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #008000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: medium; text-align: left;">“I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart: I am, I am, I am.” // Sylvia Plath <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; text-align: left;"> **“**//It is perfectly true, as philosophers say, that life must be understood// //backwards. But they forget the other proposition, that it must// //be lived forwards.//**”** -Soren Kierkegaard

"An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't." anatole france

"Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, nor hell a fury like a woman scorned." "Music hath charms to soothe the savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak." "Thus grief still treads upon the heels of pleasure; Married in haste, we may repent at leisure." WILLIAM CONGREVE

Jane Eyre still speaks truth:
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<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #424242; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 17px;">“And in that moment, I swear we were infinite” ~Stephen Chbosky

FAULKNER “Read, read, read. Read everything —trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You’ll absorb it. Then write. If it is good, you’ll find out. If it’s not, throw it out the window.” – Statement at the University of Mississippi, 1947

“So, never be afraid. Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion, against injustice and lying and greed. If you, not just you in this room tonight, but in all the thousands of other rooms like this one about the world today and tomorrow and next week, will do this, not as a class or classes, but as individuals, men and women, you will change the earth.” – Address to the Graduating Class of University High School, Oxford, Mississippi, 1951 “Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Do not bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.” faulkner?

"The artist must bow to the monster of his own imagination." richard wright

Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information on it. Samuel Johnson Ralph Waldo Emerson:
 * In every work of genius we rec­og­nize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a cer­tain alien­ated majesty. Great works of art have no more affect­ing lesson for us than this. They teach us to abide by our spon­ta­neous impres­sion with good-humored inflex­i­bil­ity then most when the whole cry of voices is on the other side. Else tomorrow a stranger will say with mas­terly good sense pre­cisely what we have thought and felt all the time…

“It’s not just about writing all the time. It’s about whether you’re doing the two things that’ll make you a good writer. Living and reading. I have no doubt that when you have something to say to the world, you’ll be able to do it. And if you can’t write? Good. Go read.” Junot Diaz, to a high school student His book? The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao. Read it.

Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.'
-Percy Bysshe Shelley

[|from "on the human" blog]

“People think focus means saying yes to the thing you’ve got to focus on. But that’s not what it means at all. It means saying no to the 100 other good ideas that there are. You have to pick carefully. I’m actually as proud of the many things we haven’t done as the things we have done.” Steve Jobs

[|How many definitions of HERO can you devise?]