Larry Gates famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them.

  • One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.

  • The things that make me different are the things that make me.

  • Sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge and lean over to watch the river slipping slowly away beneath you, you will suddenly know everything there is to be known.

  • Religion is not something separate and apart from ordinary life. It is life - life of every kind viewed from the standpoint of meaning and purpose: life lived in the fuller awareness of its human quality and spiritual significance.

  • Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process.

  • As my poor father used to say In 1963, Once people start on all this Art Goodbye, moralitee! And what my father used to say Is good enough for me.

  • Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed. Having once experienced the mystery, plenitude, contradiction, and composure of a work of art, we afterward have a built-in resistance to the slogans and propaganda of oversimplification that have often contributed to the destruction of human life. Poetry is a verbal means to a nonverbal source. It is a motion to no-motion, to the still point of contemplation and deep realization.

  • Art, however innocent, looks like deceiving.

  • Egypt loved the lotus because it never dies. It is the same for people who are loved.

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