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  • #1
    N.H. Kleinbaum
    “We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for. To quote from Whitman, "O me! O life!... of the questions of these recurring; of the endless trains of the faithless... of cities filled with the foolish; what good amid these, O me, O life?" Answer. That you are here - that life exists, and identity; that the powerful play goes on and you may contribute a verse. That the powerful play *goes on* and you may contribute a verse. What will your verse be?”
    N.H. Kleinbaum, Dead Poets Society

  • #2
    N.H. Kleinbaum
    “Carpe Diem,” Keating whispered loudly. “Seize the day. Make your lives extraordinary.”
    N.H. Kleinbaum, Dead Poets Society

  • #3
    N.H. Kleinbaum
    “But poetry, romance, love, beauty? These are what we stay alive for!”
    N.H. Kleinbaum, Dead Poets Society

  • #4
    N.H. Kleinbaum
    “We don't read and write poetry because its cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is full of passion.”
    N.H. Kleinbaum, Dead Poets Society

  • #5
    N.H. Kleinbaum
    “but only in their dreams can men be truly free. 'twas always thus and always thus will be.”
    N.H. Kleinbaum, Dead Poets Society

  • #6
    Sylvia Plath
    “I talk to God but the sky is empty.”
    Sylvia Plath

  • #7
    Sylvia Plath
    “I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.”
    Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

  • #8
    Federico García Lorca
    “I know there is no straight road
    No straight road in this world
    Only a giant labyrinth
    Of intersecting crossroads”
    Federico García Lorca
    tags: life

  • #9
    Jorge Luis Borges
    “I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited.”
    Jorge Luis Borges

  • #10
    Walt Whitman
    “We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. So medicine, law, business, engineering... these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love... these are what we stay alive for.”
    Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass

  • #11
    André Aciman
    “If I could have him like this in my dreams every night of my life, I'd stake my entire life on dreams and be done with the rest.”
    André Aciman, Call Me by Your Name

  • #12
    David Sheff
    “In his suicide note, Kurt Cobain wrote, "It's better to burn out than to fade away." He was quoting a Neil Young song about Johnny Rotten of the Sex Pistols. When I was twenty-four, I interviewed John Lennon. I asked him about this sentiment, one that pervades rock and roll. He took strong, outraged exception to it. "It's better to fade away like an old soldier than to burn out, " he said. "I worship people who survive. I'll take the living and the healthy.”
    David Sheff, Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction

  • #13
    David Sheff
    “You're as sick as your secrets.”
    David Sheff, Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction

  • #14
    André Aciman
    “You'll kill me if you stop.”
    André Aciman, Call Me by Your Name

  • #15
    André Aciman
    “We belonged to each other, but had lived so far apart that we belonged to others now.”
    André Aciman, Call Me by Your Name

  • #16
    André Aciman
    “This is where I dreamed of you before you came into my life.”
    André Aciman, Call Me By Your Name

  • #17
    Julio Ramón Ribeyro
    “Uno está nutrido de los autores que ama, de los que algo o mucho toma y aprende, pero sobre todo está nutrido de su propia experiencia.”
    Julio Ramón Ribeyro, La Palabra Del Mundo, Antología

  • #18
    Julio Ramón Ribeyro
    “Pero más puede la curiosidad que el castigo”
    Julio Ramón Ribeyro, Tristes Querellas en la Vieja Quinta
    tags: humor

  • #19
    Julio Ramón Ribeyro
    “La vida sólo se justifica cuando es un combate por el perfeccionamiento individual o por el mejoramiento de la condición humana. Ambas posibilidades pueden excluirse, pero también complementarse. Me parece indigna la vida dedicada a la acumulación de bienes materiales, a la búsqueda del poder por el poder, a la conquista de una posición o de un nombre, así como detesto la vida cerril, vegetativa, resignada e incuriosa del pequeñoburgués o del obrero calificado. Decir que la vida es una y corta es un arma de doble filo: precisamente porque es una y corta debemos esforzarnos en darle un carácter creativo. El escritor solitario que lucha contra las palabras para edificar una obra superior, el hombre de ciencia que se desvela por descubrir o inventar algo que salvará vidas o ahorrará esfuerzos, el líder político que se enfrenta al poder para acabar con una injusticia, son ejemplos de vidas creadoras. El creador es aquel que considera su vida no como un fin en sí mismo sino como un instrumento al servicio de una realidad que lo trasciende: arte, ciencia, justicia, verdad.”
    Julio Ramón Ribeyro, La tentación del fracaso

  • #20
    Julio Ramón Ribeyro
    “—¿Sabes lo que es el occipucio? —preguntó Rojas.
    —¿Occipucio? Tu madre, por si acaso. —respondió Calmet.”
    Julio Ramón Ribeyro, La Palabra Del Mundo, Antología

  • #21
    Juan Rulfo
    “Me gustas más en las noches, cuando estamos los dos en la misma almohada, bajo las sábanas, en la oscuridad”
    Juan Rulfo, Pedro Páramo

  • #22
    Juan Rulfo
    “Hacía tantos años que no alzaba la cara, que me olvidé del cielo”
    Juan Rulfo, Pedro Páramo

  • #23
    Juan Rulfo
    “La tierra, «este valle de lágrimas»”
    Juan Rulfo, Pedro Páramo



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