Older quotes which were online before: --------------------------------------------------- All poetry is born of love, and the moment one doesn't have love enough for the world, or love enough for others--at that point one is dead as a poet ~Stanley Kunitz

There is a silence where hath been no sound There is a silence where no sound may be in the cold grave In the cold grave, under the deep deep sea

Thomas Hood

The best music is essentially there to provide you something to face the world with. - Bruce Springsteen

"Perhaps it is this vastness which no one can ever get to know: India as an ache, for which one has a great tenderness, but from which at length one always wishes to seperate oneself. V.S.Naipaul

We're just two lost souls swimming in a fishbowl, year after year. Pink Floyd

Without music life would be a mistake - -Friedrich Nietzsche

Keep America Beautiful, Grow a Beard, Take a Bath, Burn a Billboard. - Edward Abbey

"Through love we steal from the time that kills us a few hours which we turn now into paradise and not into hell. In both ways time expands and ceases to be a measure. Beyond happiness and unhappiness, though it is both things, love is intensity: it does not give us eternity but life, that second in which the doors of time and space open just a crack: here is there and now is always. In love, everything is two and everything strives to be one."

• Octavio Paz

If people persist in trespassing upon the grizzlies' territory, we must accept the fact that the grizzlies, from time to time, will harvest a few trespassers. - - Edward Abbey

The human spirit can overcome many things. Little things like fear and even big things¡­like gravity.

She said she usually cried at least once each day not because she was sad, but because the world was so beautiful and life was so short.

• Brian Andreas American Artist and Storyteller

To forgive is to heal.

The more you learn what to do with yourself, and the more you do for others, the more you will enjoy the abundant life.
-William J. H. Boetcker

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