Top 42 Kamienska Quotes
#1. In the days of democracy there is no such thing as active loyalty to a person. You are, therefore, loyal or disloyal to institutions.
Mahatma Gandhi
#2. It's September 21st, a day I love for the balance it carries with it.
Pam Houston
#3. I am that which lies beyond time. Like a melody, which sounds completely only after the last note is played.
Anna Kamienska
#4. His mother had survived decades of marriage to his angry, disappointed, alcoholic father by developing what she called a "forgettery" instead of a memory. She woke up every day and forgot the day before.
Salman Rushdie
#6. there is and can be no beginning to any event, for one event always flows uninterruptedly from another. The
Leo Tolstoy
#9. The way a source strains toward the light, toward the air. Its laboring work, its effort, its black passageways like despair. That's the way a poet looks for words. With muscles, gestures.
Anna Kamienska
#10. My poems are more my silence than my speech. Just as music is a kind of quiet. Sounds are needed only to unveil the various layers of silence.
Anna Kamienska
#11. No home anymore. Nowhere to return. My house is a ruin, a cemetery. You may yearn for the grave, but just try living there.
Anna Kamienska
#12. I received the grace of shadows. The grace of remaining in the dark.
- From A Nest of Quiet: A Notebook
Anna Kamienska
#13. We are all happy when U.S. soldiers are killed week in and week out. The killing of U.S. soldiers in Iraq is legitimate and obligatory.
Walid Jumblatt
#14. I've learned to value failed conversations, missed connections, confusions. What remains is what's unsaid, what's underneath. Understanding on another level of being.
Anna Kamienska
#16. If the withdrawal from Gaza goes badly, obviously, that will set us back.
Jane Harman
#17. I write in order to comprehend, not to express myself.
Anna Kamienska
#18. Kirk is a man, and he loves it. He loves women.
Lee Grant
#19. In the midst of these fine gentlemen with their great names and their ancient traditions of respectability, the two women sat face to face, exchanging tender glances, triumphant and supreme in the tranquil abuse of their sex, and their open contempt for the male. And the gentlemen applauded them.
Emile Zola
#20. There are things better left untouched by words ...
Anna Kamienska
#21. I'm moved by everything broken and crippled. Since that's how we really are.
Anna Kamienska
#22. I have no talent. I write poems for myself, to think things through, that's all.
Anna Kamienska
#24. We cling to words like drowning men to straws. But still we drown, we drown.
Anna Kamienska
#25. To write incorporeal poems, almost without words. To approximate the impossible, where art disappears and the Word becomes.
Anna Kamienska
#26. When public figures think they can open a business even though they've got no business experience, it's a bad idea.
Moby
#27. Our single most important challenge is therefore to help establish a social order in which the freedom of the individual will truly mean the freedom of the individual.
Nelson Mandela
#29. I would write a scientific paper with the devil, if it was on high temperatures. The fellow's probably an authority.
Henry Eyring
#30. Letters of the condemned. Last words scratched on a cell's wall. To write like that.
Anna Kamienska
#32. Tell me what's the difference
between hope and waiting
because my heart doesn't know
It constantly cuts itself on the glass of waiting
It constantly gets lost in the fog of hope
Anna Kamienska
#33. We're flimflam artists. But remember, sonny, you can't con people unless they're greedy to begin with. W. C. Fields had it right. You can't cheat an honest man.
Sidney Sheldon
#34. Most suicidal teens are different; they're tempted to kill themselves. with me, i know i need to die; i should be killed for the things i've done. but i keep feeling this nudge, this TEMPTATION TO LIVE. and everyday i pray to god that i never lose that temptation.
Jake Vander Ark
#35. This morning I suddenly catch myself: I'm not there, I'm so lost in thought, I don't know what's going on around me. Can you think yourself to death?
Anna Kamienska
#36. The immense light. A state of inner emergency and waiting ... This luminosity does not negate reason or any rational sense. It simply exists. A kind of poetic sensibility open to the world. To everything
grand and small.
Anna Kamienska
#37. You can go out and get anything you want if you work hard enough for it and believe in yourself.
Dustin Poirier
#38. During the sleepless hours of the night
a thought came to me that seemed important. I got up in the dark and wrote it down. In the morning I read: 'I went looking for loneliness. But it found me.
Anna Kamienska
#39. Every man needs a blind eye and a deaf ear, so when people applaud, you'll only hear half of it, and when people salute, you'll only see part of it. Believe only half the praise and half the criticism.
Charles Spurgeon
#40. Lack of Faith"
Yes,
even when I don't believe -
there is a place in me
inaccessible to unbelief,
a patch of wild grace,
a stubborn preserve,
impenetrable,
pain untouched by the sleeping body,
music that builds its nest in silence.
Anna Kamienska
#41. I have hands full of this radiance. It flows through my fingers. It doesn't diminish.
Anna Kamienska
#42. I don't write poetry when I wish, I write when I can't, when my larynx is flooded and my throat is shut.
Anna Kamienska
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