"But Nature too, shakes off her sleep today; By May's mild sun we see reviv'd her frame, Around my window Venus' birds proclaim, The month most cherish'd backwards bends his way!"

-- Alphonse de Lamartine

#Sleep Quotes #Bird Quotes #Months Quotes

“Finding the right people and giving power and letting them go find value in the world. That's got to be toughest. Really, its like the Spanish court in the 16th century saying, um, take this ship and go see what you can find. You have to believe in your sailors!”
“I have a strong propensity in me to begin this chapter very nonsensically, and I will not balk my fancy.--Accordingly I set off thus:”
“It is the stress that holds the structure up.”
“The most effective way to manage change is to create it.”
“What is certain is that setting a piece of nature in place and drawing it are two very different things.”
“Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.”

Source : "Reflections of a Writer: Long Work, Short Life". The New York Times, March 20, 1988.
“Slow seems their speed whose thoughts before them run.”
“Until we can manage time, we can manage nothing else.”

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