#latin

I'm always looking for meaningful one-night stands ↗

— Dudley Moore

#relating #relationships #dating

Your friends, and your associates, and the people around you, and the environment that you live in, and the speakers around you - the speakers around you - and the communicators around you, are the poetry makers. If your mother tells you stories, she is a poetry maker. If your father says stories, he is a poetry maker. If your grandma tells you stories, she is a poetry maker. And that’s who forms our poetics. ↗

— Juan Felipe Herrera

#poetry #communication

i think you will be tired of telling me & my dreams to go to hell ↗

— E.E. Cummings

#deflating #dreams #go-to-hell #dreams

Science is only a Latin word for knowledge ↗

— Carl Sagan

#knowledge #latin #learn #science #truth

Foisting an identity on people rather than allowing them the freedom and space to create their own is shady. ↗

— Raquel Cepeda

#freedom-of-thought #hispanic #identity #immigrant-experience #latino-americans

Pactum serva" - "Keep the faith ↗

— Horace

#latin #philosophy #faith

Even the most political poem is an act of faith. ↗

— Martin Espada

#poetry #faith

nil admirari" be surprised at nothing ↗

— Motto of the Fitzgibbon family

#family

As the middle child of the Laurel Canyon Adams Family, Whit was surprisingly chill on the subject of ampire-vays. ↗

— Beth Bloom

#funny #humor #pig-latin #silly #vampire

In the consciousness that another mind reflects your thought, you find the keenest satisfaction. Here is the high office of a friend, and in these high experiences is the point of attachment.-- ↗

— Samuel McChord Crothers

#friendship #relating #experience