Cantos 3 Quotes

#1. I have used movies to go to sleep at night. You flip from channel to channel to channel and see just enough to make your brain mushy and go to sleep.

Kip Thorne

#2. Periods are normal and natural, and the human species would not be here if periods did not exist.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#3. Stars scribble on our eyes the frosty sagas, The gleaming cantos of unvanquished space. (Cape Hatteras

Hart Crane

#4. All wounds heal. Even these."
"That's a lie." I tell him.
I'll never be healed of Eo. That pain will last forever.
"Some things do not fade. Some things can never be made right.

Pierce Brown

#5. He was your usual man when it came to romance, which is to say he couldn't recite Baa Baa Black Sheep when sober, whereas when drunk, sixteen cantos of Byron's Don Juan was par for the course.

Tyne O'Connell

#6. The thing is, this trip is forcing me to get to know myself more than I've ever had to at home, where everything is comfortable and easy.

Jen Malone

#7. What causes misery is always trying to get away from the facts of life, always trying to avoid pain and seek happiness - this sense of ours that there could be lasting security and happiness available to us if we could only do the right thing.

Pema Chodron

#8. Life is brutal that way ... the loss of irrecoverable moments amid trivia and distraction.

Dan Simmons

#9. By the grace of God alone, I was able to still focus, when it was time for me to do my job, and I think I've done it pretty good, and I know I can buckle down even more.

Ginuwine

#10. Artists hide their identities in the brushstrokes of their paintings, the verses in their cantos, and the sentences in their novels. The true face of an artist is never on his face and this is what he prefers. Others misunderstand this displaced melancholy with an absence of melancholy.

Bruce Crown

#11. I had written my master's thesis on Ezra Pound on 'The Cantos.' And don't ask me about it. I don't remember anything about it.

Sally Mann

#12. Most critics agree with the seventeenth-century printer who gave them to the world, that the Mutabilitie Cantos seem to be part of some following book of The Faerie Queene.

Janet Spens

#13. But truth is not the only merit that a metaphysic can possess. It may have beauty, and this is certainly to be found in Plotinus; there are passages that remind one of the later cantos of Dante's Para- diso, and of almost nothing else in literature. Now

Bertrand Russell

#14. Passive resistance seeks to rejoin politics and religion and to test all our actions in the light of ethical principles.

Mahatma Gandhi

#15. Our lives are nothing but a short span of time. And if we spend tons of time earning money that we simply throw away, then we're throwing away part of our potential.

Shmuley Boteach

#16. Over-civilization and barbarism are within an inch of each other. And a mark of both is the power of medicine-men.

Gilbert K. Chesterton