Jose Luis Peixoto Quotes

#1. O Lord equipped the sacred souls to do thy work.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#2. Suffering is tossed by handfuls over the multitudes, with most of it falling on some people and little or none of it on others.

Jose Luis Peixoto

#3. The poem doesn't have stanzas, it has a body, the poem doesn't have lines,/ it has blood, the poem is not written with letters, it's written/ with grains of sand and kisses, petals and moments, shouts and/ uncertainties.

Jose Luis Peixoto

#4. The way the function dictates the form ... elegant lines ... nothing extraneous ... this shoe perfectly expresses the essence of shoeness.

David Mazzucchelli

#5. Just because you don't know what you want yet, it doesn't mean that there's nothing to want.

Emily Henry

#6. I think: perhaps the sky is a huge sea of fresh water and we, instead of walking under it, walk on top of it; perhaps we see everything upside down and the earth is a kind of sky, so that when we die, when we die, we fall and sink into the sky.

Jose Luis Peixoto

#7. [That form of] eloquence, the foster-child of licence, which fools call liberty.
[Lat., Eloquentia, alumna licentiae, quam stulti libertatem vocabant.]

Tacitus

#8. But what is of great importance to me is observation of the movement of colors.

Robert Delaunay

#9. I can easily ignore my detractors and feel the people who respond favorably.

LeRoy Neiman

#10. The time before our bodies were upgraded to sync with the amazing invention called the Dreamscape. Thirty-eight years ago, people actually had to fall asleep on their own, and sometimes, they would toss and turn for hours.

Shannon Duffy

#11. One day, when tenderness has become the single rule of the morning,/ I will wake in your arms. perhaps your skin will be overly gorgeous./ and the light will include the impossible understanding of love.

Jose Luis Peixoto

#12. Of your philosophy you make no use,
If you give place to accidental evils.

William Shakespeare

#13. Recycling is a good thing to do. It makes people feel good to do it. The thing I want to emphasize is the vast difference between recycling for the purpose of feeling good and recycling for the purpose of solving the trash problem.

Barry Commoner

#14. Before a revolution happens, it is perceived as impossible; after it happens, it is seen as having been inevitable.

Rosa Luxemburg

#15. Memory is like a curse. We fall into eternity, and memory is a weight that keeps pulling us to where we can never go back to.

Jose Luis Peixoto

#16. Real grief is real. It makes you feel awful but it does something to you. I mean, it works it out like perspiration.

Agatha Christie