Choose language

Forgot your password?

Need a Spoofbox account? Create one for FREE!

No subscription or hidden extras

Login

#w

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #w




How to be a Poet (to remind myself) Make a place to sit down. Sit down. Be quiet. You must depend upon affection, reading, knowledge, skill-more of each than you have-inspiration work, growing older, patience, for patience joins time to eternity… Breathe with unconditional breath the unconditioned air. Shun electric wire. Communicate slowly. Live a three-dimensional life; stay away from screens. Stay away from anything that obscures the place it is in. There are so unsacred places; there are only sacred places and desecrated places. Accept what comes from silence. Make the best you can of it. Of the little words that come out of the silence, like prayers prayed back to the one who prays, make a poem that does not disturb the silence from which it came. ↗


— Wendell Berry


#how-to-be-a-poet #nature #poet #poetry #communication

Never has America lost a war ... But name, if you can, the last peace the United States won. Victory yes, but this country has never made a successful peace because peace requires exchanging ideas, concepts, thoughts, and recognizing the fact that two distinct systems of life can exist together without conflict. Consider how quickly America seems to be facing its allies of one war as new enemies. ↗


— Vine Deloria Jr.


#native-american #politics #united-states #war #life

By ten o'clock she thought he might soon be ready to talk. He'd threatened, blustered, even tried to sweet-talk her. Then the bribery had begun. He'd let her live if she let him out immediately. He'd give her three horses, two sheep, and a cow. He'd give her a pouch of coin, three horses, two sheep, not just a cow but a milking cow, and set her up anywhere in England, if she would just leave his castle and not bother him again for the rest of his life. The only offer/threat that had perked her momentary interest was when he'd shouted that he was going to "toop her 'til her bonny legs fell off." She should be so lucky. ↗


— Karen Marie Moning


#gwen #karen-marie-moning #kiss-of-the-highlander #life

Everyone's allowed to be in love with the wrong person at some point. In fact, it's a mistake not to be. ↗


— Harriet Evans


#life #love #wisdom #life

And just when I though things were starting to get better, everything had gone wrong again. ↗


— Rachel Ward


#hopeless #life #mistakes #pain #truth

I stared hard, trying to find a pattern. Thinking if I kept looking hard enough, maybe the pieces of the world would fit back together into something I could understand. ↗


— Carol Rifka Brunt


#mystery #world #life

The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function. ↗


— Albert A. Bartlett


#humanity #life #science #sustainability #sustainable-development

I heard an airplane passing overhead. I wished I was on it. ↗


— Charles Bukowski


#life #sky #travel #wishes #life

Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else. ↗


— Judy Garland


#else #first-rate #instead #second-rate #somebody

Problems in science are sometimes made easier by adding complications. ↗


— Daniel C. Dennett


#evolution #philosophy #science #life






back to top