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Meghan O’Rourke Quote: “A mother, after all, is your…”

A mother, after all, is your entry into the world. She is the shell in which you divide and become a life. Waking up in a world without her is like waking up in a world without sky: unimaginable.

October 27, 2021 1976, American, Meghan O'Rourke, Quotes by Poets

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Quote: “Many works of the ancients have…”

Many works of the ancients have become fragments. Many works of the moderns are fragments at the time of their origin.

October 26, 2021 1772, German, Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel, March 10, Quotes by Poets

Julian Bond Quote: “Ever since I’ve become chairman, there…”

Ever since I’ve become chairman, there have been profiles of me in People, George, The Washington Post, The Detroit News, and all of them could have been written by the same person.

October 18, 2021 1940, American, January 14, Julian Bond, Quotes by Activists

Robert M. Pirsig Quote: “The study of the art of…”

The study of the art of motorcycle maintenance is really a miniature study of the art of rationality itself. Working on a motorcycle, working well, caring, is to become part of a process, to achieve an inner peace of mind. The motorcycle is primarily a mental phenomenon.

October 10, 2021 1928, American, Quotes by Philosophers, Robert M. Pirsig, September 6

Kenneth Rexroth Quote: “You don’t become a saint until…”

You don’t become a saint until you lead a good life whether in Tibet or Italy or America.

October 10, 2021 1905, American, December 22, Kenneth Rexroth, Quotes by Poets

Allen Tate Quote: “According to its doctors, my one…”

According to its doctors, my one intransigent desire is to have been a Confederate general, and because I could not or would not become anything else, I set up for poet and beg an to invent fictions about the personal ambitions that my society has no use for.

October 7, 2021 1899, Allen Tate, American, November 19, Quotes by Poets

Henry B. Eyring Quote: “The message of the restored gospel…”

The message of the restored gospel of Jesus Christ is that we can and must expect to become better as long as we live.

October 5, 2021 1933, American, Henry B. Eyring, May 31, Quotes by Leaders

James Fenton Quote: “Poetry carries its history within it…”

Poetry carries its history within it, and it is oral in origin. Its transmission was oral. Its transmission today is still in part oral, because we become acquainted with poetry through nursery rhymes, which we hear before we can read.

October 3, 2021 1949, April 25, British, James Fenton, Quotes by Poets

William Blake Quote: “If the fool would persist in…”

If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise.

September 30, 2021 1757, English, November 28, Quotes by Poets, William Blake

Jean-Paul Sartre Quote: “One is still what one is…”

One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one’s death, one dies one’s life.

September 30, 2021 1905, French, Jean-Paul Sartre, June 21, Quotes by Philosophers

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