Abraham Sutzkever Quotes

#1. What are heavy? sea-sand and sorrow. What are brief? today and tomorrow. What are frail? spring blossoms and youth. What are deep? the ocean and truth.

Christina Rossetti

#2. Life offers you a thousand chances ... all you have to do is take one.

Frances Mayes

#3. Hope & curiosity about the future seemed better than guarantees. The unknown was always so attractive to me ... and still is.

Hedy Lamarr

#4. She had had a real fright but had fallen back to earth. The odd thing was that in her fall her fear too had been dashed down and broken. It was gone.

Henry James

#5. Life has always been a matter of putting one's feet down carefully

Isobelle Carmody

#6. The way to work with a bully is to take the ball and go home. First time, every time. When there's no ball, there's no game. Bullies hate that. So they'll either behave so they can play with you or they'll go bully someone else.

Seth Godin

#7. Keats writes better about poems than anybody I've ever read. The things that he says about what he wants his own poems to be are the ideals that I share.

Andrew Motion

#8. Women can handle the worst kind of pain.

Gayle Forman

#9. You can't change the world; you can't fix the whole environment. But you can recycle. You can turn the water off when you're brushing your teeth. You can do small things.

Patti Smith

#10. As your reputation gets bigger, the gaps and chances to go through them get smaller.

William Aitken

#11. Shake it off and move on.

Tom Hanks

#12. Probably means there's a good chance. Possibly means we might or we might not.

Will Smith

#13. The 1950s would be my ideal decade because I'm actually very traditional; I enjoy being at home, and I'm a complete nester.

Tamsin Egerton

#14. On one memorable occasion Vronsky played all the parts in an abridged version of Anna Karenina when the rest of the cast were on strike for more blinis.

Jasper Fforde

#15. I don't know whether there is a God but there sure is someone acting out of spite

Abraham Sutzkever

#16. I see my life flashing before me when I see people in the audience singing along to something I wrote in the '80s, and they're maybe standing next to someone who knows the more recent stuff.

Dave Pirner