Good Morning! Here are your daily birthday quotations...
Upton Sinclair (1878 – 1968):
“It is the music which makes it
what it is; it is the music which changes the place from the rear room of a
saloon in back of the yards to a fairy place, a wonderland, a little comer of
the high mansions of the sky.”
and
“It is difficult to get a man
to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”
and
“Human beings suffer agonies,
and their sad fates become legends; poets write verses about them and
playwrights compose dramas, and the remembrance of past grief becomes a source
of present pleasure - such is the strange alchemy of the spirit.”
George R.R. Martin (1948 - ):
“A reader lives a thousand lives before he
dies. The man who never reads lives only once.”
and
“A mind needs a book like a sword needs a
whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.”
and
“There is only one God and his name is Death.
And there is only one thing we say to Death: Not Today.”
Donald Hall (1928 – ):
“I read poems for the pleasure
of the mouth. My heart is in my mouth, and the sound of poetry is the way
in."
“To desire to write poems that
endure-we undertake such a goal certain of two things: that in all likelihood
we will fail, and if we succeed we will never know it”
“When I was nineteen,
I told a thirty-
year-old man what a
fool I had been when
I was seventeen.
'We were always,' he
said glancing down, 'a
fool two years ago.”
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