"A poem is good until one knows by whom it is."

--

Karl Kraus

“It is not pleasant to have a stranger doubt your respectability.”
“I saw how greatly he suffered the requirement of being clever. It separated him from his soul, and it didn't get him anything other than a living”

Source : Mark Helprin (2005). “A Soldier of the Great War”, p.520, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“Meditation is all about the pursuit of nothingness. It's like the ultimate rest. It's better than the best sleep you've ever had. It's a quieting of the mind. It sharpens everything, especially your appreciation of your surroundings. It keeps life fresh.”

Source : Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. June 2006.
“To me defeat in anything is merely temporary. Defeat simply tells me that something is wrong in my doing; it is a path leading to success and truth.”
“To him who is stinted of food a boiled turnip will relish like a roast fowl.”
“In my view, aiming at simplicity and lucidity is a moral duty of all intellectuals: lack of clarity is a sin, and pretentiousness is a crime.”
“What does it mean that social structures among young people are so often predicated upon trying really, really hard to appear to not-be-trying?”
“When I was in New York it was like a maze, a rat maze, going from one little box to another little box and passing through passageways to get from one safe haven to another.”

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