Quotes of: Selected Keyword

We trouble our life by thoughts about death, and our death by thoughts about life.

The Essays: A Selection

Fortunately art is a community effort - a small but select community living in a spiritualized world endeavoring to interpret the wars and the solitudes of the flesh.

Allen Ginsberg

Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self.

Selected Essays

The basic stimulus to the intelligence is doubt, a feeling that the meaning of an experience is not self-evident.

Selected Essays

You get confused by crying women, I get confused by walks with princes.

The Selection

P.S. May, don’t these strawberry tarts just make you want to cry?

The Selection

I can’t help it." I sighed. "One can never help being born into perfection.

The Selection

He reached up and tugged his ear. And I did the same.

The Selection

So far, I had a solid collection of my honest opinions…

The Selection

... in art nothing is more secondary than the author's intentions.

Selected Non-Fictions

Before there was any water there were tides of fire, both our tones flow from the older fountain.

Selected Poems

So much depends upon A red wheel barrow Glazed with rain water Beside the white chickens.

Selected Poems

Out of love, No regrets-- Though the goodness Be wasted forever. Out of love, No regrets-- Though the return Be never.

Selected Poems

And round about there is a rabble Of the filthy, sturdy, unkillable infants of the very poor. They shall inherit the earth.

Selected Poems

Being in love shows a person how he ought to be.

Select Tales

We must not only obtain Wisdom: we must enjoy her.

Selected Works

The oppressors do not favor promoting the community as a whole, but rather selected leaders.

Pedagogy of the Oppressed

Every writer has to figure out what works best - and often has to select and discard different tools before they find the one that fits.

Nora Roberts

Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artists metaphysical value judgments.

The Fountainhead

True love is usually the most inconvenient kind.

The Selection

Selecting the right person for the right job is the largest part of coaching.

Phil Crosby