Today is the birthday of the following people:
Mary Oliver (1935 - ):
“Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?”
and
“Instructions for living a life.
Pay attention.
Be astonished.
Tell about it.”
H.D. (1886 – 1961):
“Writing. Love is writing.”
Georges Bataille (1897 – 1962):
“We have in fact only two
certainties in this world - that we are not everything and that we will die.”
Jared Diamond (1937 - ):
“Science is often misrepresented
as "the body of knowledge acquired by performing replicated controlled
experiments in the laboratory." Actually, science is something broader:
the acquisition of reliable knowledge about the world.”
Stephen Jay Gould (1941 - 2002):
“Life is short, and potential
studies infinite. We have a much better chance of accomplishing something
significant when we follow our passionate interests and work in areas of
deepest personal meaning.”
Andreï Makine (1957 - ):
“The translator of prose is the
slave of the author and the translator of poetry is his rival.”
and
“An exile's only country is his
country's literature.”
