Today's Words of Wisdom - October 30, 2015

Today is the birthday of the following people:

Ezra Pound (1885 – 1972):

“Literature is news that stays news.”

and

“Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.”

and

“There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and at forty-eight”

and

“And the days are not full enough

And the nights are not full enough

And life slips by like a field mouse

Not shaking the grass”

Henry Winkler (1945 - ):

“Assumptions are the termites of relationships.”

Louis Malle (1932 – 1995):

"You must find the note, the correct key, for your story. If you find it, everything will work. If you do not, everything will stick out like elbows."

Paul Valéry (1871 – 1945):

“Poems are never finished - just abandoned”

and

“Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.”

and

“Poetry is to prose as dancing is to walking.”

and

“God made everything out of nothing. But the nothingness shows through.”

John Adams (1735 – 1826):

“Let us dare to read, think, speak and write.”

and

“I read my eyes out and can't read half enough...the more one reads the more one sees we have to read.”

and

“There are two types of education... One should teach us how to make a living, and the other how to live.”