Quote Quote from “Zora Neale Hurston: Novels And Stories” If you want that good feeling that comes from doing things for other folks then you have to pay for it in abuse and misunderstanding. Zora Neale Hurston
Quote Quote from “Do What You Will (1929)” Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead. Aldous Huxley
Quote Quote from “So Be It: Or The Chips Are Down (1952)” Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it. Andre Gide
Quote Quote from “The Nuptials” But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads? Albert Camus
Quote Quote from “Attributed” I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests. Pablo Neruda
Quote Quote from “Tell My Horse: Voodoo And Life In Haiti And Jamaica (1938)” A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it. Zora Neale Hurston
Quote Quote from “1916 Letter To Louis Untermeyer” A poem...begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness. Robert Frost
Quote Quote from “Letter To Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1870)” If I read a book [and] it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry. If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry. These are the only ways I know it. Is there any other way? Emily Dickinson