The West has made people too time-conscious, not knowing where they are going but speeding to get there because time is short. – Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
Probably all the attention to poetry results in some value, though the attention is more often directed to lesser than to greater values. – A. R. Ammons
Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity. – Robert Louis Stevenson
Talking is like playing on the harp; there is as much in laying the hands on the strings to stop their vibration as in twanging them to bring out their music. – Oliver Wendell Holmes
