"I fear the vermin that shall undermineSenate and citadel and school and shrine."

-- Edwin Markham

#Fear Quotes #School Quotes #Shrines Quotes

“What is the purpose of writing? For me personally, it is really to explain the mystery of life, and the mystery of life includes, of course, the personal, the political, the forces that make us what we are while there's another force from inside battling to make us something else.”
“I'm not entangled in shaping my work according to other people's views of how I should have done it.”
“Why are poets so apt to choose their mates, not for any similarity of poetic endowment, but for qualities which might make the happiness of the rudest handicraftsman as well as that of the ideal craftsman of the spirit? Because, probably, at his highest elevation, the poet needs no human intercourse; but he finds it dreary to descend, and be a stranger.”
“The trouble with people is they don't understand people.”

Source : David Goodis (2012). “Nightfall: A Library of America eBook Classic”, p.9, Library of America
“There is not, in my view, a single European demos.”
“Good news is only really good to those directly involved. Most people lead such futile and useless lives that only bad news makes them feel better. If not better, certainly gooder. If one cannot gain recognition for anything else, he can rest well with the assurance that he is "good", which in most case equates with "right".”
“Don't wait for success, but for the respect and interest of those who read you. At the start it could be a classmate, someone who shares your interests. Before sending off the manuscript for a novel to a publishing house, it would be a good idea to try writing short stories, and publishing them in a local magazine.”
“The Self-revealing of the Word is in every dimension - above, in creation; below, in the Incarnation; in the depth, in Hades; in the breadth, throughout the world. All things have been filled with the knowledge of God.”

Source : Saint Athanasius of Alexandria, Aeterna Press (2016). “Saint Athanasius of Alexandria Collection [6 Books]”, p.300, Aeterna Press

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