New Quotations in English
Always be a poet, even in prose.
The lawn-cutter might just as well not have been there at all; the gardener will be there a lifetime.
We be of one blood, ye and I.
When I know your soul, I will paint your eyes.
Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.
A good lover will behave as elegantly at dawn as at any other time.
In life there are two things which are dependable. The pleasures of the flesh and the pleasures of literature.
Mathematics is the art of the perfect. Physics is the art of the optimal. Biology is the art of the satisfactory.
Maybe I am a bad poet, but I never secretly smeared anyone, no one falsely denounced.
Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I'm convinced of the opposite.
I leave everything: pretty orchards,
And dark forests, and the bright meadows,
And take with me only dear songs.
My actions are my only true belongings.
To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.
There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.
An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex.
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
The absence of touch is seemingly one of the most marked developmental stressors that we can suffer.
In a world of stressful lack of control, an amazing source of control we all have is the ability to make the world a better place, one act at a time.
Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression. The chasm is never completely bridged.
