October 21, 2014

Good Morning! Here are your daily birthday quotations...

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 – 1834):

“Poetry: the best words in the best order.”

and

“Sir, I admit your general rule,

That every poet is a fool,

But you yourself may serve to show it,

That every fool is not a poet.”

and

“Our own heart, and not other men's opinions, forms our true honor.”

and

“Nothing is as contagious as enthusiasm. It is the real allegory of the myth of Orpheus; it moves stones, and charms brutes. It is the genius of sincerity, and truth accomplishes no victories without it.”

Dizzy Gillespie (1917 – 1993):

"I always try to teach by example and not force my ideas on a young musician. One of the reasons we’re here is to be a part of this process of exchange."

Ursula K. LeGuin (1929 - ):

“We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel... is an essential guide to our understanding of what we ourselves are and may become.”

and

“A writer is a person who cares what words mean, what they say, how they say it. Writers know words are their way towards truth and freedom, and so they use them with care, with thought, with fear, with delight. By using words well they strengthen their souls. Story-tellers and poets spend their lives learning that skill and art of using words well. And their words make the souls of their readers stronger, brighter, deeper.”

and

“When you light a candle, you also cast a shadow.”

and

“The creative adult is the child who has survived.”