Stupidity is something unshakable; nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it; it is of the nature of granite, hard and resistant.
There's something in human nature, the trying-to-get-on-with-it quality of people, the struggle to maintain or keep the show going can be exhausting.
There is something beautiful about all scars of whatever nature. A scar means the hurt is over, the wound is closed and healed, done with.
Entrepreneurs need to recognize that, especially in the digital domain, they are unlikely to come up with something that is going to be permanently on top, that impermanence and ephemerality is the nature of the beast.
In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it.
There is something of the freshness of mind, of the lightness of spirit in Linne which for centuries has been linked in people's minds with the mountains of Sweden and Swedish joy in nature.
It's certainly a lot more difficult to get a project made if you're talking about something progressive. That's just the nature of the industry.
I didn't want to tell the tree or weed what it was. I wanted it to tell me something and through me express its meaning in nature.
In Hawaii, we have something called Ho'oponopono, where people come together to resolve crises and restore peace and balance.
One thing Della Valle taught me is the power to say no if something isn't right. That mattered even over sales.
What one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power can easily destroy.
Women who are inclined to write poetry at all are inspired by being mad at something.
Auden said poetry makes nothing happen. But I wonder if the opposite could be true. It could make something happen.
Poetry is a release of something previously unknown into the visible. You write to invite that, to make of yourself a gathering of the unexpected and, with luck, of the unexpectable.
However, I learned something. I thought that if the young person, the student, has poetry in him or her, to offer them help is like offering a propeller to a bird.
The poetry that sustains me is when I feel that, for a minute, the clouds have parted and I've seen ecstasy or something.
I don't think poetry is something that can be taught. We can encourage young writers, but what you can't teach them is the very essence of poetry.
I think of religion as something that stains the person. It's a mindset you can never get free from, it's always in the back of your head.
As much as I'm not a journalist, I use journalism. And when you photograph a relationship, it's quite wonderful to let something unfold in front of you.
I have very little respect for Nancy Reagan. There is something about her that is very petty.
Science or research is always under pressure to deliver something which can be used immediately for society.
