Thus, the poet's word is beginning to strike forcefully upon the hearts of all men, while absolute men of letters think that they alone live in the real world.

Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise.

Samuel Lover

The biggest tab the public picks up for fossil fuels has to do with what economists call 'external costs,' like the health effects of air and water pollution.

Jeff Goodell

Berlioz says nothing in his music, but he says it magnificently.

James G. Huneker

When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that.

Gertrude Stein

Happiness is the settling of the soul into its most appropriate spot.

Aristotle

Arithmetic is where the answer is right and everything is nice and you can look out of the window and see the blue sky -- or the answer is wrong and you have to start over and try again and see how it comes out this time.

Carl Sandburg, Complete Poems, 1

iMac is next year's computer for ,299, not last year's computer for 99.

Steve Jobs

American policy seems to be wed to a perpetual state of war. Why? History shows that the world will always be in flux or turmoil, with different peoples competing for visibility and power. The U.S. cannot fix the fate of every nation.

Camille Paglia

Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books.

Gaston Bachelard

Space is the stature of God.

Joseph Joubert

But what Tyler longed for was to have The Feeling arrive; when every flicker of light that touched the dipping branches of a weeping willow, every breath of breeze that bent the grass towards the row of apple trees, every shower of yellow ginko leaves dropping to the ground with such direct and tender sweetness, would fill the minister with profound and irreducible knowledge that God was right there.

Elizabeth Strout

The greatest inspiration is often born of desperation.

Comer Cotrell