#rin

Poets yearn, of course, to be published, read, and understood, but they do little, if anything, to set themselves above the common herd and the daily grind. ↗

— Wislawa Szymborska

#anything #common #course #daily #grind

Unfortunately, poetry is not born in noise, in crowds, or on a bus. There have to be four walls and the certainty that the telephone will not ring. That's what writing is all about. ↗

— Wislawa Szymborska

#born #bus #certainty #crowds #four

An intellectual is going to have doubts, for example, about a fundamentalist religious doctrine that admits no doubt, about an imposed political system that allows no doubt, about a perfect aesthetic that has no room for doubt. ↗

— Antonio Tabucchi

#aesthetic #allows #doctrine #doubt #doubts

Fifty years after half a million gypsies were exterminated in the Second World War - thousands of them in Auschwitz - we're again preparing the mass killing of this minority. ↗

— Antonio Tabucchi

#again #auschwitz #exterminated #fifty #gypsies

I was born in the Second World War during the Nazi invasion of my country. ↗

— Antonio Tabucchi

#country #during #i #i was born #invasion

When a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing. ↗

— Tacitus

#her #lost #nothing #she #shrink

Substantial progress toward better things can rarely be taken without developing new evils requiring new remedies. ↗

— William Howard Taft

#better things #developing #evils #new #progress

You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water. ↗

— Rabindranath Tagore

#merely #sea #standing #staring #water

I thought this convention phenomenon was very flattering, but that's about the extent of it. ↗

— George Takei

#convention #extent #flattering #i #phenomenon

Then that did very well at the box office, so before you knew it, we were in a string of feature motion pictures. Then they announced that they were going to do some spinoffs of us. ↗

— George Takei

#before #box #box office #did #feature