"For many years, I have been moved by the blue at the far edge of what can be seen, that color of horizons, of remote mountain ranges, of anything far away. The color of that distance is the color of an emotion, the color of solitude and of desire, the color of there seen from here, the color of where you are not. And the color of where you can never go."

-- Rebecca Solnit

#Distance Quotes #Blue Quotes #Color Quotes

“To be always thinking about your manners is not the way to make them good; the very perfection of manners is not to think about yourself.”
“Our attempts to reshape others may produce change, but the change is distortion rather than transformation.”

Source : David Keirsey (1998). “Please Understand Me 2”, Prometheus Nemesis Book Company
“It is always hard for poets to believe that one says their poems are bad not because one is a fiend but because their poems are bad.”

Source : Randall Jarrell, Mary Jarrell (1985). “Randall Jarrell's letters: an autobiographical and literary selection”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)
“The Dominican Republic is my holy land, my Mecca.”

Source : Raquel Cepeda (2014). “Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina”, p.259, Simon and Schuster
“I think acting is something that is within you. It's a very natural thing for me. It comes from myself, really.”
“When I was awarded a fellowship in poetry by the National Endowment for the Arts (for "Alphabets"), I felt myself suddenly (vaingloriously) equal to my Crow, which would be - I knew at once - Rat.”
“We are all so much more complicated than we allow ourselves to appear.”
“We . . . must try to live without causing unnecessary harm, not just to fellow humans but to all beings. We must try not to be stingy, or to exploit others. There will be enough pain in the world as it is.”

Source : Gary Snyder (2010). “The Practice of the Wild”, p.4, Counterpoint Press

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