"The poem is not a thing we see; it is, rather, a light by which we may see."

-- Robert Penn Warren

#Light Quotes #Poetry Quotes #May Quotes

“I sit in the dark. And it would be hard to figure out which is worse; the dark inside, or the darkness out.”

Source : Joseph Brodsky, “I Sit By The Window”
“My belief is firm in a law of compensation. The true rewards are ever in proportion to the labour and sacrifices made.”
“Scripture paints men as they really are, hiding none of their blemishes or barbaric ways. The honesty of scripture is one of the reasons I knew that the Bible would be the place to go to learn what a real man should be and do.”
“When we translate, we always to some extent betray the text we are translating. That is why translation is so hard and thankless. All you can do is to fail in the least egregious way possible.”

Source : "Buddhist howls". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. December 28, 2012..
“An American-led overthrow of Saddam Hussein - and the replacement of the radical Baathist dictatorship with a new government more closely aligned with the United States would put America more wholly in charge of the region than any power since the Ottomans, or maybe even the Romans.”

Source : David Frum (2003). “The Right Man: The Surprise Presidency of George W. Bush”, p.164, Random House
“Spirit is like the wind, in that we can't see it but can see its effects, which are profound.”
“Do not ask me to be kind; just ask me to act as though I were.”
“The best meetings get real work done. When your people learn that your meetings actually accomplish something, they will stop making excuses to be elsewhere.”

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