"To sense the peace of extinguished passion Happiness in not knowing the ultimate knowledge"

-- Dejan Stojanovic

#Passion Quotes #Knowing Quotes #Not Knowing Quotes

“I adore imaginary monsters, but I am terrified of real ones.”

Source : Teju Cole (2011). “Open City: A Novel”, p.16, Random House
“[John] Adams's perception of Europe, and especially France, was clearly different than [Tomas] Jefferson's. For Jefferson, the luxury and sophistication of Europe only made American simplicity and virtue appear dearer. For Adams, by contrast, Europe represented what America was fast becoming - a society consumed by luxury and vice and fundamentally riven by a struggle between rich and poor, gentlemen and commoners.”
“God was happy without humans before they were made; he would have continued happy had he simply destroyed them after they had sinned; but as it is he has set his love upon particular sinners, and this means that, by his own free voluntary choice, he will not know perfect and unmixed happiness again till he has brought every one of them to heaven. He has in effect resolved that henceforth for all eternity his happiness shall be conditional upon ours.”
“People been killing each other since forever and hurting each other since forever and taking advantage of each other since forever.”

Source : Source: www.complex.com
“Sometimes if I tell people, 'I'm afraid that I'm really a fraud,' or 'I have a lot of self-doubt,' they go, 'Oh, no, you're kidding.' I go, 'No, I'm really honest.'”
“Truth comes to us from the past, as gold is washed down from the mountains of Sierra Nevada, in minute but precious particles, and intermixed with infinite alloy, the debris of the centuries.”
“A good photograph will prove to the viewer how little our eyes permit us to see. Most people, really, donâ€™t see-see only what they have always seen and what they expect to see-where a photographer, if heâ€™s good, will see everything. And better if he sees things he doesnâ€™t expect to see.”
“If art is to flourish in the twenty-first century, it must renew its moral authority by rededicating itself to life. It must be an enriching, ennobling and vital partner in the public pursuit of civilization. It should be a majestic presence in everyday life just as it was in the past.”

You may also like:

Charles Simic
Poet
Donald Hall
Poet
Galway Kinnell
Poet
James Tate
Poet
John Ashbery
Poet
Kay Ryan
Poet
Mark Strand
Poet
Saul Bellow
Writer
Steve Tesich
Screenwriter