#v

A poet is a professional maker of verbal objects. ↗

— W. H. Auden

#objects #poet #professional #verbal

To underestimate one's thirst, to pass a given landmark to the right or left, to find a dry spring where one looked for running water - there is no help for any of these things. ↗

— Mary Austin

#dry #find #given #help #landmark

Every time we make the decision to love someone, we open ourselves to great suffering, because those we most love cause us not only great joy but also great pain. The greatest pain comes from leaving. When the child leaves home, when the husband or wife leaves for a long period of time or for good, when the beloved friend departs to another country or dies … the pain of the leaving can tear us apart. Still, if we want to avoid the suffering of leaving, we will never experience the joy of loving. And love is stronger than fear, life stronger than death, hope stronger than despair. We have to trust that the risk of loving is always worth taking. ↗

— Henri J.M. Nouwen

#love #pain #death

Real style is not having a program - it's how one behaves in a crisis. ↗

— Frank Auerbach

#crisis #having #how #program #real

The unity in any painter's work arises from the fact that a person, brought to a desperate situation, will behave in a certain way... style. ↗

— Frank Auerbach

#arises #behave #brought #certain #certain way

Basketball is like war in that offensive weapons are developed first, and it always takes a while for the defense to catch up. ↗

— Red Auerbach

#always #basketball #catch #defense #developed

Never in a million years would I think I'd play in a Super Bowl. ↗

— Victor Cruz

#i #i think #million #never #play

He who believes in nobody knows that he himself is not to be trusted. ↗

— Red Auerbach

#himself #knows #nobody #trusted #who

Kisses are a better fate than wisdom. ↗

— e. e. cummings

#better #fate #kisses #than #wisdom

2005 opens with the promise of a number of substantial direct private investments that can swiftly transform the economy and set all sectors on a pronounced upward curve. ↗

— Baldwin Spencer

#direct #economy #investments #number #opens