"Baudelaire's L'HÃ©autontimoroumÃ©nos was long seen to be a sexual sadomasochistic poem, it is now generally accepted that the poem is about writing poetry."

-- Stephen Dobyns

#Writing Quotes #Long Quotes #Poetry Quotes

“Whatever you desire, believe that you have received it, and you will.”
“A good soul like a good body should be as unobtrusive as possible; in so far as it functions properly, it should not be noticed for good or for ill.”
“The phenomenological world is not the bringing to explicit expression of a pre-existing being, but the laying down of being. Philosophy is not the reflection of a pre-existing truth, but, like art, the act of bringing truth into being.”

Source : Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1962). “Phenomenology of Perception”, p.19, Psychology Press
“Use no hurtful deceit; think innocently and justly and, if you speak, speak accordingly.”
“Remember that sometimes not getting what you want is a wonderful stroke of luck.”
“If the pull of the outside world is strong, there is also a pull towards the human. The cat may disappear on its own errands, but sooner or later, it returns once again for a little while, to greet us with its own type of love.”
“There is hardly a mistake which in the course of our lives we have committed, but some proverb, had we known and attended to its lesson, might have saved us from it.”

Source : Richard Chenevix Trench (1856). “On the lessons in Proverbs: being the substance of lectures delivered to young men's societies at Portsmouth and elsewhere; from the Second London edition, rev. and enlarged”, p.89
“Nothing in medical literature today communicates the idea that women's bodies are well-designed for birth. Ignorance of the capacities of women's bodies can flourish and quickly spread into the popular culture when the medical profession is unable to distinguish between ancient wisdom and superstitious belief.”

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