For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred. – John Gardner Category: Poverty
Poetry is not a civilizer, rather the reverse, for great poetry appeals to the most primitive instincts. – Robinson Jeffers Category: Poetry
Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense. – Ralph Waldo Emerson Category: Society
I learned why out riding alone is an oxymoron: An equestrian is never alone, is always sensing the other being, the mysterious but also understandable living being that is the horse. – Jane Smiley Category: alone
