Sonnets To Orpheus Quotes

#1. The Sonnets to Orpheus, Part Two, XII
Want the change. Be inspired by the flame
where everything shines as it disappears.
The artist, when sketching, loves nothing so much
as the curve of the body as it turns away.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#2. What is the deepest loss that you have suffered? If drinking is bitter, change yourself to wine. - from Sonnets to Orpheus II, 29 Rainer Maria Rilke

Kate Bernheimer

#3. The people of Liberia know what it means to be deprived of clean water, but we also know what it means to see our children to begin to smile again with a restoration of hope and faith in the future.

Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

#4. I do what I can do when I can do it.

Chris Rock

#5. One day men will look back and say I gave birth to the twentieth century.

Jack The Ripper

#6. His story is simple, because simple is always best.

Stephen King

#7. People should not be responding to bigoted ugliness with any ugliness of their own.

Tim Soutphommasane

#8. The road to Easy Street goes through the sewer.

John Madden

#9. You may not realize it, but your life has the potential to bless everyone you encounter.

Richard Blackaby

#10. Dignified refusal can only take you so far. Ask the Congolese.

Teju Cole

#11. Even though I hadn't read a word of it, I grew up hating 'Moby-Dick.'

Nathaniel Philbrick

#12. You can't throw too much style into a miracle.

Mark Twain