Is it possible, in the final analysis, for one human being to achieve perfect understanding of another? We can invest enormous time and energy in serious efforts to know another person, but in the end, how close can we come to that person's essence? We...
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Haruki Murakami
The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.
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Mark Twain
The life you have left is a gift. Cherish it. Enjoy it now, to the fullest. Do what matters, now.
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Leo Babauta
There is nothing more important than your eternal salvation.
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Kirk Cameron
When we turn to the heavens to look for inspiration, we miss the most important piece, and that is the person right there next to us.
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Anthony T. Hincks
More Quotes By Robert Morgan
Philip Larkin has a tough honesty and sense of humor that I find irresistible, as a contemporary poet.
Our most famous writers are Faulkner and Eudora Welty and Flannery O'Connor. It would make sense that the poetry would reflect some of those same values, some of the same techniques.
The young people have MTV and rock and roll. Why would they go to read poetry? Poetry belongs to the Stone Age. It awakens in us perceptions that go back to those times.
It was less a literary thing than a linguistic, philosophical preoccupation... discovering how far you can go with language to create immediate, elementary experience.
Alchemy is the art of far and near, and I think poetry is alchemy in that way. It's delightful to distort size, to see something that's tiny as though it were vast.
