Religion is no more possible without prayer than poetry without language, or music without atmosphere. – James Martineau Category: Poetry
To a poet the mere making of a poem can seem to solve the problem of truth, but only a problem of art is solved in poetry. – Laura Riding Category: Poetry
I was very interested in American poetry for many years. Much less now. – Norman MacCaig Category: Poetry
Art works because it appeals to certain faculties of the mind. Music depends on details of the auditory system, painting and sculpture on the visual system. Poetry and literature depend on language. – Steven Pinker Category: Poetry
One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives ones death, one dies ones life. – Jean-Paul Sartre Category: Death
It is easier to act yourself into a better way of feeling than to feel yourself into a better way of action. – Orval Hobart Mowrer Category: Action
Name the season’s first hurricane Zelda and fool Mother Nature into calling it a year. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com Category: Weather
