"Poets, like the blind, can see in the dark."

-- Jorge Luis Borges

#Dark Quotes #Blind Quotes #Poet Quotes

“Man is a gaming animal. He must always be trying to get the better in something or other.”

Source : Charles Lamb (1835). “Essays of Elia”, p.40
“Traffic terrifies me.”
“Work, as we usually think of it, is energy expended for a further end in view; play is energy expended for its own sake, as with children's play, or as manifestation of the end or goal of work, as in "playing" chess or the piano. Play in this sense, then, is the fulfillment of work, the exhibition of what the work has been done for.”
“One, and two, and three, four, five. Keep fighting like this and you will die," Janco sang.”
“Are artists and writers the only people entitled to lives of their own?”
“We are not youth any longer. We donâ€™t want to take the world by storm. We are fleeing. We fly from ourselves. From our life. We were eighteen and had begun to love life and the world; and we had to shoot it to pieces.”
“We must not be frightened nor cajoled into accepting evil as deliverance from evil. We must go on struggling to be human, though monsters of abstractions police and threaten us.”

Source : Robert Hayden (2013). “Collected Poems”, p.98, W. W. Norton & Company
“Science explained people, but could not understand them. After long centuries among the bones and muscles it might be advancing to knowledge of the nerves, but this would never give understanding”

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