June 30, 2014

Good Morning! Here are your daily birthday quotations:

Czeslaw Milosz (1911 – 2004):

“In a room where

people unanimously maintain

a conspiracy of silence,

one word of truth

sounds like a pistol shot.”

and

“The purpose of poetry is to remind us

how difficult it is to remain just one person,

for our house is open, there are no keys in the doors,

and invisible guests come in and out at will.”

and

“Yet falling in love is not the same as being able to love.”

and

“When a writer is born into a family, the family is finished.”

Dave Van Ronk (1936 – 2002):

“Honesty is the cruelest game of all, because not only can you hurt someone - and hurt them to the bone - you can feel self-righteous about it at the same time.”

and

“When you're working in front of an audience, you have incentive to excel.”

Matisyahu (1979 - ):

“I think there is a tendency for people to get rigid and caught up in their beliefs of what is right and wrong, and they lose sight of humanity. Being human has to come first before right or wrong.”

and

“When a person listens to a good song, and they can look out at the world and their lives and see the dark and the light, the negative and the positive, all the different elements, all come together in one holistic poem, that is a very healing and very reductive thing, and that's what my music is about.”