Words that come from the heart are always simple.
— Albert Camus, The Misunderstanding. (1943)
William Faulkner — The Vale of Soul-Making
[A]nd I realized then the unmitigable chasm between all life and all print–that those who can, do, those who cannot and suffer enough because they can’t, write about it.
— William Faulkner, The Unvanquished (Random House, 1938)
Albert Camus — The Vale of Soul-Making
Words that come from the heart are always simple. — Albert Camus, The Misunderstanding. ( 1943)
W.S. Merwin – Variation sur un thème — BEAUTY WILL SAVE THE WORLD
Merci après-midi de ma vie en cette fin de saison sans âge merci pour mes fenêtres au-dessus des rivières merci pour le véritable amour que vous m’avez apporté quand il était grand temps et pour les mots qui sortent du silence et me prennent par surprise et m’ont porté à travers le jour clair sans […]
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John Irving — The Vale of Soul-Making
If you care about something you have to protect it – If you’re lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it. ― John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany. (Transworld Publishers; First edition, November 1, 1989)
E. E. Cummings — The Vale of Soul-Making
But I come with a dream in my eyes tonight, And I knock with a rose at the hopeless gate of your heart– Open to me! For I will show you the places nobody knows, And, if you like, The perfect places of Sleep. — E. E. Cummings, from “You Are Tired (I Think),” Etcetera: […]
Charles Bukowski Quotes About Life — Ōrphic Flux
Charles Bukowski was a German-American writer of poetry and prose, whose cult image lives on posthumously. Often using graphic language or imagery in his work, Bukowski spoke with raw emotion, honesty, and lack of pretence. He wrote about his alcoholism, failed relationships, and his experience of being abused as a child. Bukowski lived a challenging […]
— In The Soul’s Streets
To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the breaking of bread.
— James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time
Antonin Artaud – On Life and Self-Belief
We need to live first of all; to believe in what makes us live and that something makes us live-to believe that whatever is produced from the mysterious depths of ourselves need not forever haunt us as an exclusively digestive concern.
– Antonin Artaud, in The Theatre and Its Double
“Don’t be pushed by your problems. Be led by…” — Art of Quotation
“Don’t be pushed by your problems. Be led by your dreams.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson, American, writer, poet
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