Songsmith Gathering Quotes

#1. So what used to fit in a building now fits in your pocket, what fits in your pocket now will fit inside a blood cell in 25 years.

Ray Kurzweil

#2. I was a glaring blot on the perfection. But I didn't care: I didn't feel I owed him beauty.

Naomi Novik

#3. The world is a dream, you say, and it's lovely, sometimes. Sunset. Clouds. Sky."
"No. The image is a dream. The beauty is real. Can you see the difference?

Richard Bach

#4. Sometimes it seems the whole purpose of pets is to bring death into the house.

John Updike

#5. There's no end to the inventiveness of critics, I tell you. Because they can't write fiction, they put their impulse into their analysis of work.

Dennis Potter

#6. ... Clear pebbles of the rain ...

Mary Oliver

#7. Don't despise empiric truth. Lots of things work in practice for which the laboratory has never found proof.

Martin H. Fischer