December 15, 2014

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

Edna O’Brien (1930 - ):

“In our deepest moments we say the most inadequate things."

and

“We all leave one another. We die, we change - it's mostly change - we outgrow our best friends; but even if I do leave you, I will have passed on to you something of myself; you will be a different person because of knowing me; it's inescapable...”

and

“Writers are always anxious, always on the run--from the telephone, from responsibilities, from the distractions of the world.”

and

“Love . . . is like nature, but in reverse; first it fruits, then it flowers, then it seems to wither, then it goes deep, deep down into its burrow, where no one sees it, where it is lost from sight, and ultimately people die with that secret buried inside their souls.”

Max Yasgur (1919 – 1973):

“This is the largest group of people ever assembled in one place, and I think you people have proven something to the world: that a half a million kids can get together and have three days of fun and music and have nothing *but* fun and music.”

Muriel Rukeyser (1913 – 1980):

“The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.”

and

“No one wants to read poetry. You have to make it impossible for them to put the poem down--impossible for them to stop reading it, word after word. You have to keep them from closing the book.”

and

“Breathe in experience. Breathe out poetry.”

and

“If there were no poetry on any day in the world, poetry would be invented that day. For there would be an intolerable hunger.”

and

“We are against war and the sources of war.

We are for poetry and the sources of poetry.”

Betty Smith (1896 – 1972):

“The world was hers for the reading.”

and

“People always think that happiness is a faraway thing," thought Francie, "something complicated and hard to get. Yet, what little things can make it up; a place of shelter when it rains - a cup of strong hot coffee when you're blue; for a man, a cigarette for contentment; a book to read when you're alone - just to be with someone you love. Those things make happiness.”