Debashish Banerji Quotes

#1. Mandelstam is the sort of poet who comes along very, very rarely. Even the two Russian poets whose work is often linked with his - Anna Akhmatova and Marina Tsvetaeva - though their work is more "urgent" than most American poetry, seem to me to operate at a lesser charge than Mandelstam.

Christian Wiman

#2. What we seek, at the deepest level, is inwardly to resemble, rather than physically to possess, the objects and places that touch us through their beauty.

Alain De Botton

#3. What did you think, that joy / was some slight thing?

Mark Doty

#4. The greatest journey of discovery that the human can take is not through the universe or to the remotest location on earth, it is the voyage through the human mind.

Steven Magee

#5. Animals are good to think with.

Claude Levi-Strauss

#6. Hope sees a crown in reserve, mansions in readiness, and Jesus Himself preparing a place for us, and by the rapturous sight she sustains the soul under the sorrows of the hour.

Charles Spurgeon