Carolyn Forche Quotes

#1. the silence of God is God.

Carolyn Forche

#2. There is a cyclone fence between ourselves and the slaughter and behind it we hover in a calm protected world like netted fish, exactly like netted fish. It is either the beginning or the end of the world, and the choice is ourselves or nothing.

Carolyn Forche

#3. Poetry is the voice of the soul, whispering, celebrating, singing, even.

Carolyn Forche

#4. A flower, when offered in the bud, is no vain sacrifice.

Isaac Watts

#5. Every action, thought, and feeling is motivated by an intention, and that intention is a cause that exists as one with an effect.

Gary Zukav

#6. If I just work when the spirit moves me, the spirit will ignore me.

Carolyn Forche

#7. In the night I come to you and it seems a shame
to waste my deepest shudders on a wall of a man.

Carolyn Forche

#8. You are on a certain 'step'. This state is meant for only you; it is not applicable to other people. Others are on a different 'step'. Therefore you cannot pressurize anyone. You cannot have any 'objection' towards them.

Dada Bhagwan

#9. I don't know why people see the things that they do. I wouldn't pay to see them, they don't touch me or move me in any way.

Sherilyn Fenn

#10. I try not to look for messages in films.

Robert Duvall

#11. The worst is over, the worst is yet to come

Carolyn Forche

#12. Your heart is mine; there I reign. I am content.

Pierre Corneille

#13. The heart is the toughest part of the body.
Tenderness is in the hands.

Carolyn Forche

#14. The man or woman who lives worthily now is in a state of salvation.

Brigham Young

#15. Sometimes we get way too fixated on how powerful sin is and how weak we are. We worry that if we relax for a second, we'll mess up royally and ruin everything. Ironically, our paranoia only serves to make us more conscious of our sinfulness.

Judah Smith

#16. One can live without having survived

Carolyn Forche

#17. We are responsible for the quality of our vision, we have a say in the shaping of our sensibility. In the many thousand daily choices we make, we create ourselves and the voice with which we speak and work.

Carolyn Forche

#18. God, and not woman, is the heart of all. But she, as priestess of the visible earth, Holding the key, herself most beautiful, Had come to him, and flung the portals wide. He entered in: each beauty was a glass That gleamed the woman back upon his view.

George MacDonald

#19. Remember when I said that you don't tell your girls too much about your man? Well, when I got home I TOLD!!

Pepper Pace

#20. Organised religion tries to control, so therefore must be lying.

L. Ron Hubbard