"And all the loveliest things there be come simply, so it seems to me."

-- Edna St. Vincent Millay

#Simplicity Quotes

“And if you don't have your ears open, you're not going to be able to figure out what you should be doing.”
“All a poet can do today is warn.”

Source : Poems (1963 ed.) preface
“Tricky the paths a long love might follow, like the spiral down twists of a raindrop on a windowpane.”
“If we truly worship God, acknowledging and adoring his infinite worth, we find ourselves impelled to make him known to others, in order that they may worship him too. Thus worship leads to witness, and witness in its turn to worship, in a perpetual circle.”
“It is manlike to punish but godlike to forgive. [Ger., Menschlich ist es bloss zu strafen Aber gottlich zu verzeihn.]”
“I've always appreciated people like Graham Parker or Loudon Wainwright III, who spend their entire lives writing songs and working their ***** off just to have complete artistic freedom. They're just sharing their lives with you through their music. That's the same kind of work that I'm trying to do, in my own weird way.”
“Nice tights," I snorted. Or I tried to snort, anyway. I'm not exactly sure how, though people in books are always doing it.”
“I was black growing up in an all-white neighborhood, so I felt like I just didn't fit in. Like I wasn't as good as everybody else, or as smart, or whatever.”

You may also like: