Today is the birthday of the following people:
Rainer Maria Rilke
(1875 – 1926):
“Perhaps all the
dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just
once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its
deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.”
and
“Let everything
happen to you
Beauty and terror
Just keep going
No feeling is final”
and
“Find out the reason
that commands you to write; see whether it has spread its roots into the very
depth of your heart; confess to yourself you would have to die if you were
forbidden to write.”
and
“Believe in a love
that is being stored up for you like an inheritance, and have faith that in
this love there is a strength and a blessing so large that you can travel as
far as you wish without having to step outside it.”
Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881):
“No man lives without
jostling and being jostled; in ally was he has to elbow himself through the
world, giving and receiving offense.”
Jay-Z (1969 - ):
“We change people
through conversation, not through censorship.”
and
“A poet's mission is
to make words do more work than they normally do, to make them work on more
than one level.”
and
“If the beat is time,
flow is what we do with that time, how we live through it. The beat is
everywhere, but every life has to find its own flow.”
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