There is nothing in the world more stubborn than a corpse: you can hit it, you can knock it to pieces, but you cannot convince it. – Alexander Herzen Category: Tradition
As soon as tradition has come to be recognized as tradition, it is dead. – Allan Bloom Category: Tradition
It cannot be inherited, and if you want it you must obtain it by great labor. – TS (Thomas Stearns) Eliot Category: Tradition
I was always making up rhymes. But I never thought that poetry would become my life. – Saul Williams Category: Poetry
One is tempted to say that the most human plants, after all, are the weeds. – John Burroughs, Pepacton, 1881 Category: Weeds