"Go home and write / a page tonight. / And let that page come out of you - / Then, it will be true."

-- Langston Hughes

#Home Quotes #Writing Quotes #Tonight Quotes

“The production of souls is more important than the production of tanks.... And therefore I raise my glass to you, writers, the engineers of the human soul.”
“I don't think you can have an imagination without having fantasy, and you can't have that rich a life without an imagination.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“The gunner's mate came up and started breaking the locks on the ammunition. Everything was locked up for fear that someone might go in there with a cigarette or something.”
“Eagle of flowers! I see thee stand, And on the sun's noon-glory gaze; With eye like his, thy lids expand, And fringe their disk with golden rays: Though fix'd on earth, in darkness rooted there, Light is thy element, thy dwelling air, Thy prospect heaven.”

Source : James Montgomery, Robert Carruthers (1858). “The Poetical Works of James Montgomery: With a Memoir”, p.162
“[Shoji] Hamada seldom drew an exact drawing of a pot that he was going to make.”
“I feel like the torch has been passed to me. The question is what am I going to do with it.”
“The Dharma Path is to keep walking forward. But the true Dharma has no going forward, no going backward, and no standing still.”
“The soul that walks in love neither tires others nor grows tired.”

Source : St. John of the Cross (1991). “The Collected Works of Saint John of the Cross”, p.92, ICS Publications

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