William Everson Quotes
Poetry, like sanctity, is the orchestration of multiple attributes into vast, compelling wholes.
Quotes to Explore
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A group of psychologists say they have discovered twenty-three different body language indicators that show whether or not a person is lying. If you would like to see all twenty-three at the same time, they recommend taking a guided tour of the White House.
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And among the other honours and rewards our young men can win for distinguished service in war and in other activities, will be more frequent opportunities to sleep with a woman; this will give us a pretext for ensuring that most of our children are born of that parent.
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Virtue is a kind of health, beauty and good habit of the soul.
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Man alone suffers so excruciatingly in the world that he was compelled to invent laughter.
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When our actions do not, our fears make us traitors.
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My pen moves along the pagelike the snout of a strange animalshaped like a human armand dressed in the sleeve of a loose green sweater.
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People want to find a 'meaning' in everything and everyone. That's the problem - there is no meaning in everything...
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It takes a great client to create great architecture.
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If you open the armpits, the brain becomes light. You cannot brood or become depressed.
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Existence must be asserted in the present if one does not want all life to be defined as an escape toward nothingness.
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There are many names to Allah plus one you don't know. And each name is an attribute that flexes his characteristics: the Benevolent, the Merciful, the All-Knower... And to me, my names be flexin' personalities of myself: Prince Rakeem, Bobby Digital, Bobby Steels, the RZA, the Rzarector... These are personalities of myself.
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There is something essentially sanguine about me, which I am inclined to attribute to the fact that I was born by caesarean section. It must affect you.
