#Language Quotes #Form Quotes #Description Quotes
“The fact that The Bridge contains folk lore and other material suitable to the epic form need not therefore prove its failure as a long lyric poem, with interrelated sections.”
“Healing is learning to trust life.”
“Captain Hale, alone, without sympathy or support, save that from above, on the near approach of death asked for a clergyman to attend him. It was refused. He then requested a Bible; that too was refused by his inhuman jailer.”
“Saints are like trees. They do not call to anyone, neither do they send anyone away. They give shelter to whoever cares to come, be it a man, woman, child, or an animal. If you sit under a tree it will protect you from the weather, from the scorching sun as well as from the pouring rain, and it will give you flowers and fruit. Whether a human being enjoys them or a bird tastes of them matters little to the tree; its produce is there for anyone who comes and takes it.”
“A good restaurant just makes me giddy. I can go all day with anticipation just knowing where I'm going to eat. Sometimes it's well planned, sometimes it's spontaneous. Either way works.”
“There is a brief moment when all there is in a man's mind and soul and spirit is reflected through his eyes, his hands, his attitude. This is the moment to record”
Source : Yousuf Karsh (1962). “In Search of Greatness: Reflections of Yousuf Karsh”, University of Toronto Press
“I'm not in the business of reading tea leaves. I don't have a crystal ball.”
“I believe that books, once they are written, have no need of their authors.”
Source : Elena Ferrante (2016). “Frantumaglia: A Writer's Journey”, p.206, Penguin
Susan W. Krebs
