Bohemian Quotes

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Gloria Whelan
“They were all brilliant. They wrote books and painted pictures, and if they ever stopped talking, which I was sure they would never do, they planned to change the world.”
Gloria Whelan, Listening for Lions

Aaron Lauritsen
“The struggles we endure today will be the ‘good old days’ we laugh about tomorrow.”
Aaron Lauritsen, 100 Days Drive: The Great North American Road Trip

Nikki Rowe
“She was born to be free, let her run wild in her own way and you will never lose her.”
Nikki Rowe

Nikki Rowe
“I am a wild woman.
it would take a warrior to tame my spirit.”
Nikki Rowe

Aaron Lauritsen
“It's in those quiet little towns, at the edge of the world, that you will find the salt of the earth people who make you feel right at home.”
Aaron Lauritsen, 100 Days Drive: The Great North American Road Trip

Aaron Lauritsen
“Life's trials will test you, and shape you, but don’t let them change who you are.”
~ Aaron Lauritsen, ‘100 Days Drive”
Aaron Lauritsen, 100 Days Drive: The Great North American Road Trip

Aaron Lauritsen
“True friends don't come with conditions.”
Aaron Lauritsen, 100 Days Drive: The Great North American Road Trip

Aaron Lauritsen
“From this point forward, you don’t even know how to quit in life.”
~ Aaron Lauritsen, ‘100 Days Drive”
Aaron Lauritsen

Aaron Lauritsen
“Those who achieve the extraordinary are usually the most ordinary because they have nothing to prove to anybody. Be Humble.”
Aaron Lauritsen, 100 Days Drive: The Great North American Road Trip

Sarah Thornton
“The term bohemian has a bad reputation because it's allied to myriad clichés, but Parisians originally adopted the term, associated with nomadic Gypsies, to describe artists and writers who stayed up all night and ignored the pressures of the industrial world.”
Sarah Thornton, Seven Days in the Art World

Philip K. Dick
“But an artist, he realized. Or rather so-called artist. Bohemian. That's closer to it. The artistic life without the talent.”
Philip K. Dick, The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch

Ernesto Che Guevara
“All night, after the exhausting games of canasta, we would look over the immense sea, full of white-flecked and green reflections, the two of us leaning side by side on the railing, each of us far away, flying in his own aircraft to the stratospheric regions of his own dreams. There we understood that our vocation, our true vocation, was to move for eternity along the roads and seas of the world. Always curious, looking into everything that came before our eyes, sniffing out each corner but only ever faintly--not setting down roots in any land or staying long enough to see the substratum of things the outer limits would suffice.”
Ernesto Guevara, The Motorcycle Diaries: Notes on a Latin American Journey

Melody  Lee
“Don't tell a girl with fire in her veins and hurricane bones what she should and shouldn't do. In the blink of an eye, she will shatter that ridiculous cage you attempt to build around her beautiful bohemian spirit.”
Melody Lee, Moon Gypsy

Nikki Rowe
“I like being full of mystery and wonder, people always know im up to something but never know exactly what.”
Nikki Rowe

Monica Laura Rapeanu
“someone was singing
and he was alone.
for us, you wrote yourself
in small letters
so we wouldn’t know.

from the bitterness of blood,
from the nights of the eagles,
that music began,
but we couldn’t hear it.

the grapes are calling
their wine,
the stranger. (...)”
Monica Laura Rapeanu, Orbul de la Cină

Monica Laura Rapeanu
“C10 (or the king's carolers – from student times)

on the side stairway, we gather in the evening, many
the cold cement steps welcome us
as if we were the king's carolers
we have mulled wine and dry snacks
the orange guitar stretches and warps in the candlelight
we take another drag from the cigarette, nibble on sticks and salty biscuits
happiness pricks our veins with Burmese nails

One floor below, behind the door 'Mr. Blues - Don't Disturb'
the tasty rot of jazz caresses our toes
We sin in thought, our minds dangling from the railing

later, the Serbs come to sing with us
Golden-haired like gods from a bombed country
we scratch the wall with our nails, don’t know what to say
they bring us wafers with fruits and chocolate
wrapped in green foil

the second evening we gather again on the side stairway
with the same mulled wine and dry snacks
and the same us

the old rockers hanging heavy on the guitar’s body
at the midnight office.”
Monica Laura Rapeanu, Orbul de la Cină

Karl Wiggins
“It’s plain to see that the romance has slightly slipped from the Bohemian lifestyle. But we’re literary Gypsies, all of us, and it’s only recently that we’re starting to realise we’re not alone. The Internet is connecting all the healers and storytellers, the wild people and mystics, the writers and painters, and the ones who are slightly cracked.

I’ve always loved wild people.”
Karl Wiggins, Wrong Planet - Searching for your Tribe

Monica Laura Rapeanu
“wait for me in a song!
if you’ve come to dinner,
release your dogs,
pour the wine into the sky,
for all the longing ghosts
of the grapes (...)”
Monica Laura Rapeanu, Orbul de la Cină

راينر ماريا ريلكه
“ستوجد المرأة يوماً ما، في زمنٍ لا يعني فيه اسمها شيئاً عكس الذكورة وحسب، بل شيئاً خاصاً بنفسه، شيئاً يُفكَّر فيه ويوصَف بكلماتٍ لا تهدف إلى التحديد والشمول، بل إلى الحياة والوجود”
راينر ماريا ريلكه

Melody  Lee
“She's a dark-eyed, red flame, bohemian hurricane.”
Melody Lee, Moon Gypsy

Karl Wiggins
“Both the Gypsies of the 19th century and the Bohemian scribblers and court jester types share similar personality traits. Both groups were known as drifters, dancers, minstrels and troubadours. And for their cheerful and pleasant approach to poverty. They were also known for stalking members of the opposite sex. Alcohol, words and the hue and glow of the artist’s easel were what they lived for”
Karl Wiggins, Wrong Planet - Searching for your Tribe

Karl Wiggins
“You can understand how the same word used to describe Gypsies in Western Europe came to also describe the poor artists of the Parisian slums”
Karl Wiggins, Wrong Planet - Searching for your Tribe

“মানুষের সঙ্গে কোনো বিরোধ নেই


না, মানুষের সঙ্গে আমার আর বিরোধ নেই কোন–
এখন পাওনাদার দুর্ঘটনায় পড়লে তাকে নিয়ে যেতে পারি হাসপাতালে
প্রাক্তন প্রেমিকার স্বামীর কাছ থেকে অনায়াসে চাইতে পারি চার্মিনার
দাড়ি গজানোর মতো অনায়াস এ জীবনে আমি
রামকৃষ্ণের কালিপ্রেমে দেখি সার্বভৌম যৌনশান্তি
বাবলিদের স্বামীপ্রেমে দেখি সার্বজনীন যৌনসুখ
একটা চটি হারিয়ে গেলে আমি কিনে ফেলি এক জোড়া নতুন চপ্পল
না, মানুষের সঙ্গে আমার আর বিরোধ নেই কোন
বোনোর বুকের থেকে সরে যায় আমার অস্বস্তিময় চোখ
আমি ভাইফোঁটার দিন হেঁটে বেড়াই বেশ্যাপাড়ায়
আমি মরে গেলে দেখতে পাব জন্মান্তরের করিডোর
আমি জন্মাবার আগের মুহূর্তে আমি জানতে পারিনি আমি জন্মাচ্ছি
আমি এক পরিত্রাণহীন নিয়তিলিপ্ত মানুষ
আমি এক নিয়তিহীন সন্ত্রাসলিপ্ত মানুষ
আমি দেখেছি আমার ভিতর এক কুকুর কেঁদে চলে অবিরাম
তার কুকুরীর জন্যে এক সন্ন্যাসী তার সন্ন্যাসিনীর স্বেচ্ছাকৌমার্য
নষ্ট করতে হয়ে ওঠে তৎপর লম্পট আর সেই লাম্পট্যের কাছে
গুঁড়ো হয়ে যায় এমনকী স্বর্গীয় প্রেম– শেষ পর্যন্ত আমি
কবিতার ভেতর ছন্দের বদলে জীবনের আনন্দ খোঁজার পক্ষপাতী
তাই জীবনের সঙ্গে আমার কোন বিরোধ নেই– মানুষের সঙ্গে
আমার কোন বিরোধ নেই”
ফালগুনী রায় ( Falguni Roy )

Haven Kimmel
“in the 1970s people still referred to my mother as a Communist because she had a subscription to The Atlantic Monthly,
Haven Kimmel

Ana Claudia Antunes
“A Bohemian life,
filled with poetry,
it cuts like a knife,
without coquetry!”
Ana Claudia Antunes, Pierrot & Columbine

Catherine Meurisse
“Love is a Bohemian child... it has never, never known a law.”
Catherine Meurisse, La jeune femme et la mer

Haven Kimmel
“On my end-of-the-year report card all she wrote was “Is disruptive in class. Colors outside the lines. Talks out of turn.” When I showed it to my parents, they read it out loud to me, and my mom said, “Good for you, sweetheart.” And my dad gave me a little pat on the back.”
Haven Kimmel, A Girl Named Zippy: Growing Up Small in Mooreland, Indiana

Michael Bassey Johnson
“Nature is an old school, frequented by hippies on weekends.”
Michael Bassey Johnson, Night of a Thousand Thoughts

Jo Brunini
“In life, like art, there has to be an essential sense of weirdness.”
Jo Brunini

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