Author: poetryfest

Above all else, it is about leaving a mark that I existed: I was here. I was hungry. I was defeated. I was happy. I was sad. I was in love. I was afraid. I was hopeful. I had an idea and I had a good purpose and that’s why I made works of art. […]

via “Above all else, it is about leaving a mark that I existed: I was here… I had an idea and I had a good purpose and that’s why I made works of art.” — Art of Quotation

Ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.” – James Baldwin

via “ Ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.” — Art of Quotation

Neither the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws will secure the liberty and happiness of a people whose manners are universally corrupt. Samuel Adams, statesman, philosopher, The Advertiser, 1748.

via “Neither the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws will secure the liberty and happiness of a people whose manners are universally corrupt.” — Art of Quotation

“Evil is unspectacular and always human, And shares our bed and eats at our own table” W.H. Auden, writer, poet, from the poem Herman Melville

via “Evil is unspectacular and always human, And shares our bed and eats at our own table” — Art of Quotation

Look into your own heart because who looks outside, dreams, but who looks inside awakes. Jane Austen

via “Look into your own heart because who looks outside, dreams, but who looks inside awakes.” — Art of Quotation

[ I follow a simple formula] “When you play a strong character, find his weakness. If you play a weak character, find his strength.” Kirk Douglas, actor, 1916-2020

via In Memory: “Sometimes, the thing that ties you down sets you free.” — Art of Quotation

The purpose of poetry is to remind us / how difficult it is to remain just one person. Czeslaw Milosz, poet, “Selected and Last Poems 1931-2004”, p.127, Penguin UK

via “The purpose of poetry is to remind us / how difficult it is to remain just one person.” — Art of Quotation

When you travel your first discovery is that you do not exist. Elizabeth Hardwick, writer, from “Sleepless Nights” Image: Atik Sulianami

via “When you travel your first discovery is that you do not exist.” — Art of Quotation

A woodman came into a forest to ask the trees to give him a handle for his axe. It seemed so modest a request that the principal trees at once agreed to it, and it was settled among them that a plain, homely ash tree should furnish what was wanted. No sooner had the woodman […]

via “A woodman came into a forest to ask the trees to give him a handle for his axe… No sooner had the woodman fitted the wood to his purpose, than he began felling the noblest trees in the wood.” — Art of Quotation

Whatever inspiration is, it’s born from a continuous “I don’t know. Wislawa Szymborska, writer, poet, “Poems, New and Collected, 1957-1997”, p.15, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

via “Whatever inspiration is, it’s born from a continuous ‘I don’t know’.” — Art of Quotation