Velimir Quotes

#1. Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Die, search for meaning, search for meaning, search for meaning.

Douglas Horton

#2. O human beauty, what a dream art thou, that we should cast our life and hopes away on thee!

Bryan Procter

#3. The mountains were gone, replaced by a lush green vale. A river flowed out of the mountains, twisting in great curves through the vale until it

John Gwynne

#4. Ultimately a hero is a man who would argue with the gods, and so awakens devils to contest his vision.

Norman Mailer

#5. What is called 'offence to a community' is more often than not actually a struggle within communities.

Kenan Malik

#6. The mystic sees God in everything; the scientist, atoms; the poet, poetry.

Marty Rubin

#7. A child playing with dolls may shed heartfelt tears when his bundle of rags and scraps becomes deathly ill and dies ... So we may come to an understanding of language as playing with dolls: in language, scraps of sound are used to make dolls and replace all the things in the world.

Velimir Khlebnikov

#8. The only way to love a person is ... by listening to them and seeing and believing in the god, in the poet, in them. For by doing this, you keep the god and the poet alive and make it flourish.

Brenda Ueland

#9. There's pain behind us all ... but more so with those who hate and abuse. Think about it!

Timothy Pina

#10. Don't be sad. Even if the world won't forgive you, I'll forgive you.
Don't be sad. Even if you don't forgive the world, I'll forgive you.
So please tell me. How do I make you forgive me?

Ryukishi07

#11. effect the exchange of labor and services by means of an exchange of heartbeats. estimate every task in terms of heartbeats-the monetary unit of the future, in which all individuals are equally wealthy. take 365 times 317 as the median number of heartbeats in any twenty-four-hour period.

Velimir Khlebnikov

#12. Scrape the surface of language, and you will behold interstellar space and the skin that encloses it.

Velimir Khlebnikov

#13. Brother Horse spread five fingers in the wind. "'Thus the tree grows,'" he quoted, "'and each new branch, as a new tree. Nothing is unchanging, least of all the ways of people.

Greg Keyes

#14. But every line we write breathes victory and challenge, the bad temper of a conqueror, underground explosions, howls. We are a volcano. We vomit forth black smoke.
The heavens open and out comes an imposing
Pile of garbage; it looks a lot like Leo Tolstoy

Velimir Khlebnikov

#15. Nirvana is right here, before our eyes.

Hakuin Ekaku

#16. Key the mind, and set the soul free.

Anthony Liccione

#17. I used to be able to think. My brain's circuits were all connected, and I had spark, a quickness of mind that let me function well in the world.

Floyd Skloot

#18. Elvis, stop dat! You know it is taboo to whistle at night. You will attract a spirit.

Chris Abani

#19. You are my song, my dark blue dream
Of doves, of winter's drowsy drone,
And sleighs that slow and golden go
Through gray blue shadows on the snow.

Velimir Khlebnikov