"It wasn't a deliberate decision to become a poet. It was something I found myself doing - and loving. Language became an addiction."

-- Yusef Komunyakaa

#Addiction Quotes #Decision Quotes #Language Quotes

“What has happened to architecture since the second world war that the only passers-by who can contemplate it without pain are those equipped with a white stick and a dog?”
“It is a truth of human nature that we can ponder life's mysteries for only so long before we lose interest and move on to something else.”
“When I wrote the Anita Hill book I believed everything I wrote was accurate.”
“Our system - of debt-fueled economic growth, of ineffective democracy, of overloading planet Earth - is eating itself alive.”
“Nothing mattered much to me for a time there, after you told me you could never love me, Anne. There was nobody else -- there never could be anybody else for me but you. I've loved you ever since that day you broke your slate over my head in school.”
“It doesn't matter whether you are pursuing success in business, sports, the arts, or life in general: The bridge between wishing and accomplishing is discipline.”
“Woe to humanity, should only a single animal have a seat in the Last Judgement.”
“Why should neurotic, selfish, immature people suddenly become angels when they fall in loveÂ ... ?”

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