Sunday, March 1, 2015

March 1, 2015

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



Lytton Strachey (1880 – 1932):
“A writer’s promise is like a tiger’s smile.”

and
“It is probably always disastrous not to be a poet.”




Ralph Ellison (1914 – 1994):
“When I discover who I am, I’ll be free”

and
“The world is a possibility if only you'll discover it.”

and
“We look too much to museums. The sun coming up in the morning is enough.”

and
“Who knows but that, on the lower frequencies, I speak for you?”




Robert Lowell (1917 – 1977):
“If youth is a defect, it is one that we outgrow too soon.”




Richard Wilbur (1921 - ):
“Writing poetry is talking to oneself; yet it is a mode of talking to oneself in which the self disappears; and the product's something that, though it may not be for everybody, is about everybody.”

and
“All that we do is touched with ocean, and yet we remain on the shore of what we know.”




Harry Belafonte (1927 - ):
“You can cage the singer but not the song.”




Nik Kershaw (1958 - ):
“Wouldn't it be good to be on your side
The grass is always greener over there

And wouldn't it be good if we could live without a care”



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