Vasko Popa Quotes

#1. Poets have the gift to speak for others, Vasko Popa had the very rare quality of hearing the others.

Octavio Paz

#2. I think it was Milosz, the Polish poet, who when he lay in a doorway and watched the bullets lifting the cobbles out of the street beside him realised that most poetry is not equipped for life in a world where people actually die. But some is.

Ted Hughes

#3. My grandmother has kept all of his stuff in a drawer. This one notebook was particularly chilling. He's [howard Brookner] writing to his parents knowing he has a death sentence; his movies are how he'll live on.

Aaron Brookner

#4. If, when reading and walking at the same time, he bumped into a lamppost, he would apologize and check that the lamppost was unhurt.

Katherine Rundell

#5. The Constitution is never tested during times of tranquility; it is during times of tension, turmoil, tragedy, trauma, and terrorism that it is sorely tested.

Mike Honda

#6. I've never been good at making smart career decisions or doing the right strategic thing, and yet somehow it's all led me to exactly the kind of career that I would have dreamed of having - if only I'd been smart enough to dream something like that.

Michael Cerveris

#7. French cinema audiences usually don't express anything. Certainly not satisfaction.

Michel Hazanavicius

#8. Let's see you find the world now.

Vasko Popa

#9. Don't let sleep overtake you; the world's awake within you.

Vasko Popa

#10. If sisters were free to express how they really feel, parents would hear this: "Give me all the attention and all the toys and send Rebecca to live with Grandma."

Linda Sunshine

#11. They lived with the intensity of two people aware that change would come. And when it came, it would come quickly; so there were things to talk about which could not be avoided any longer.

Robert Ludlum

#12. he is blind in his love
and he sees
no other beauty
save her he loves
who will cost him his life

Vasko Popa

#13. I think there are a lot of crazy guys that I've played with in the past. Wayne VanDorp, when I played in Chicago. He wasn't a big name, but my God was he nuts.

Jeremy Roenick

#14. out of each pain which we dont mention

a chestnut tree grows up and remains mysterious behind us

out of each hope which we cherish astar arises

and move unattainable in front of us

Vasko Popa

#15. I was kind of a jock in school. Beauty wasn't something I spent a lot of time on.

Nina Dobrev