Logo
Injury, when it is slight, upsets me; when it is strong it calms m

Injury, when it is slight, upsets me; when it is strong it calms me. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

No other quotes found from this author.
Other Quotes from
Perspective
category

Astronomers always work in the past; because light takes time to move from one place to another, they see things as they were, not as they are. – Neale E. Howard, The Telescope Handbook and Star Atlas, 1967

Category:
Perspective

Johnsons are rare; yet, Boswells are perhaps still rarer. – Thomas Carlyle

Category:
Perspective

Sometimes we must unfocus our way to clarity. – Terri Guillemets

Category:
Perspective

Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch. – James Baldwin

Category:
Perspective

Random Quotes

In America, the race goes to the loud, the solemn, the hustler. If you think youre a great writer, you must say that you are. – Gore Vidal

Category:
great

Life is 10 percent what you make it, and 90 percent how you take it. – Irving Berlin

Category:
Life

For the night shows stars and women in a better light. – Lord Byron, Don Juan

Category:
Night

When I took office, only high energy physicists had ever heard of what is called the World Wide Web…. Now even my cat has its own page. – Bill Clinton, 1996

Category:
Internet