Ciardi Divine Quotes

#1. It was a nice face, a face you get to like. Pretty, but not so pretty that you would have to wear brass knuckles every time you took it out.

Raymond Chandler

#2. Their homeopathic letters,
Envelopes full of carefully broken glass
To lodge behind your eyes so you would see

Ted Hughes

#3. If you travel in space for three years and come back, four hundred years will have passed on Earth. I am only an armchair astronomer, but I have the odd sense that I have returned from a journey to a world where nothing quite makes sense.

Jodi Picoult

#4. I've known one thing for a long time: there's a role in the big machine even for someone who makes fun of it.

Christa Wolf

#5. The writer is all alone.

V.S. Naipaul

#6. Going through life is hard think how to move on is not that easy and never will be.

Chasidy Merlos

#7. The trick is not caring what EVERYBODY thinks of you and just caring about what the RIGHT people think of you. - Brian Michael Bendis

Austin Kleon

#8. Although I too am within Amida's grasp,
Passions obstruct my eyes and I cannot see him;
Nevertheless, great compassion is untiring and illumines me always.

Shinran Shonin

#9. The telephone voice is but a seduction, a bread crumb to an appetite.

Mitch Albom