Karla Kuskin Quotes

#1. Books - all books - are complicated things, muttering at us in different contradictory voices, refusing to stay the same when we go back to them. Tying them down too much robs of them of the magic.

Andrew Rilstone

#2. We have not come [here] for fame; we have come [here] for the salvation of others.

Dada Bhagwan

#3. Many quote scripture, less study it, and even fewer live it. ~T.F. Hodge

T.F. Hodge

#4. One never discusses art save with people who are already in agreement, and then it is a matter of nuances.

Auguste Preault

#5. You can be interested in a Jane Smiley novel whether or not anyone says a word. She enters into her characters' thoughts with great understanding and depth.

Richard Russo

#6. People always say to me
"What do you think you'd like to be
When you grow up?"
And I say, "Why,
I think I'd like to be the sky
Or be a plane or train or mouse
Or maybe a haunted house
Or something furry, rough and wild...
Or maybe I will stay a child.

Karla Kuskin

#7. Abandon benevolence, discard duty, and people will return to the family ties.

Laozi

#8. And Father's fondness for talking about farting and going to the bathroom is disgusting.

Anne Frank

#9. Supplication is to implore God for mercy and compassion, to have pity upon you or to grant you the request given and expect that He will do it.

Robin Bertram

#10. And I remember as a second or third grader having some autonomy to go to the store if I felt like it, walk home, take my time, kick the can. We were on our own schedule after school, so that was cool.

Stone Gossard

#11. Daddy," I whispered, feeling my own breath hitch in my throat. "I love you."
Just when I was sure he was asleep, the one corner of his mouth lifted in a smile. "I knew that," he murmured. "Always knew that.

Morgan Matson

#12. Just for today, I will let go of anger. Just for today, I will let go of worry. Today, I will count my many blessings. Today, I will do my work honestly. Today, I will be kind to every living creature.

Mikao Usui

#13. The cross is the greatest example of humility and devotion in the universe. Jesus put your needs ahead of His own. He considered you more valuable than Himself.

Chip Ingram

#14. They won't be a right be a right time, Thea, it doesn't exist. Just get it over with

Catherine Greenman

#15. Wretched Girl, you must stay here with me! Here amidst these lonely Tombs, these images of Death, these rotting loathsome corrupted bodies! Here shall you stay, and witness my sufferings; witness, what it is to die in the horrors of despondency, and breathe the last groan in blasphemy and curses!

Matthew Gregory Lewis

#16. If you, Like me, Were made of fur, And sun warmed you, Like me, You'd purr.

Karla Kuskin

#17. If there would be a recipe for a poem, these would be the ingredients: word sounds, rhythm, description, feeling, memory, rhyme, and imagination. They can be put together a thousand different ways, a thousand, thousand ... more.

Karla Kuskin