March 2012
28 posts
“Don’t run after poetry. It penetrates unaided through the cracks.”
—
Robert Bresson
French film director (1901-1999)
“The art of living is neither careless drifting on the one hand nor fearful clinging on the other. It consists in being sensitive to each moment, in regarding it as utterly new and unique, in having the mind open and wholly receptive.”
—Alan Watts
“There are two kinds of light—the glow that illumines, and the glare that obscures.”
—James Thurber
“There are several kinds of love. One is a selfish, mean, grasping, egotistical thing which uses love for self-importance. This is the ugly and crippling kind. The other is an outpouring of everything good in you — of kindness and consideration and respect — not only the social respect of manners but the greater respect which is recognition of another person as unique and valuable. The first kind can make you sick and small and weak but the second can release in you strength, and courage and goodness and even wisdom you didn’t know you had.”
—John Steinbeck, in a letter to his son Thom
