"The Poet makes himself a seer through a long, vast and painstaking derangement of all the senses"

-- Arthur Rimbaud

#Long Quotes #Poet Quotes

“Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the soft light of the moon, silvering over the evening of life.”
“How does life become totally painful By total retreat. Total noninspection becomes total pain.But existence is basically composed of a very few truths onto which have hung a great many artificialities and which man has adorned with enormous numbers of lies. And man is prisoner of his own shadows. Now one of the things you can do with man is to get him to look up and find out that he can look through the shadows and look at the shadows and find out what they are.”
“Where was the human potential lost? How was it crippled? ...a good question might be not why do people create? But why do people not create or innovate?”
“I DJ all the time, as much as I possibly can. I'll never stop. That's my security blanket, that's what I'm good at. I still consider myself a better DJ than a singer. I can DJ in my sleep.”
“For Jews, the Messiah has never come; for Christians, He has come but once; for modern man, He appears and disappears with increasing rapidity. The saviors of modern man, the "scientists" who promise salvation through the "discoveries" of ethology and sociology, psychology and psychiatry, and all the other bogus religions, issue forth periodically, as if selected by some Messiah-of-the-Month Club.”

Source : "The Second Sin (Science and Scientism)". Book by Thomas Szasz, 1973.
“What borders on the criminal is the poor teaching and neglect of those subjects that deal with the history of ideas and ideals, a knowledge of which is essential to all youth who would assume their place in society as thinking, feeling human beings.”
“My Dear Son... remember that you are accountable to your Maker for all your words and actions.”

Source : Abigail Adams, John Adams (1848). “Letters of Mrs. Adams: the wife of John Adams”, p.95
“Busyness makes us stop caring about the things we care about.”

Source : Mark Buchanan (2007). “The Rest of God: Restoring Your Soul by Restoring Sabbath”, p.48, Thomas Nelson Inc

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