"I placed a jar in Tennessee, And round it was, upon a hill. It made the slovenly wilderness Surround that hill."

-- Wallace Stevens

#Art Quotes #Nature Quotes #Tennessee Quotes

“What keeps life fascinating is the constant creativity of the soul.”
“It is well known that no person who regards his reputation will ever kill a trout with anything but a fly. It requires some training on the part of the trout to take to this method. The uncultivated, unsophisticated trout in unfrequented waters prefers the bait; and the rural people, whose sole object in going a-fishing appears to be to catch fish, indulge them in their primitive taste for the worm. No sportsman however, will use anything but the fly, except when he happens to be alone.”
“When your creative expressions match the needs of you fellow humans, then wealth will spontaneously manifest.”
“Disease, a simple famine, plagues of locusts everywhere, or a cataclysmic earthquake, I'd accept with some despair, but no, you sent us Congress! Good God, Sir, was that fair?”
“If you climbed one step, it means you can climb the rest.”
“Mexican cars are just going to be lazy, feckless, flatulent, overweight, leaning against a fence asleep looking at a cactus with a blanket with a hole in the middle on as a coat.”

Source : "Mexican anger over BBC 'feckless, lazy' claims" by Simon Hooper, www.cnn.com. February 2, 2011.
“And I wear my sunglasses at night So I can so I can Keep track of the visions in my eyes”

Source : Song: Sunglasses at Night, Album: First Offense, 1983
“People say, what is the sense of our small effort? They cannot see that we must lay one brick at a time, take one step at a time. A pebble cast into a pond causes ripples that spread in all directions. Each one of our thoughts, words and deeds is like that. No one has a right to sit down and feel hopeless. There is too much work to do.”

Source : "Singing the Living Tradition" by the Unitarian Universalist Association, (p. 560), 1993.

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