Yoshitaka Murayama Quotes

#1. I don't know where a poem comes from until after I've lived with it a long time. I've a notion that a poem comes from absolutely everything that every happened to you.

Donald Hall

#2. I think literature can make familiar the unfamiliar, and the unfamiliar is very much about the dispossessed, and so the value of literature seems to me to go into the stories that not everybody wants to tell.

Colum McCann

#3. There were heavy beams - planks of sun - falling randomly, wonderfully, onto the road. Clouds arched their backs to lok behind as they started again to move on. 'It's such a beautiful day,' he said, and his voice was in many pieces. A great day to die. A great day to die, like this.

Markus Zusak

#4. All in all, death is something like marriage.

Louis-Ferdinand Celine

#5. Chief Justice [John] Roberts compared judges to umpires, who apply rules they did not write and cannot change to the competition before them.

Orrin Hatch

#6. Cultivate the habit of being grateful ... and ... give thanks continuously.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#7. People, like water, will run downhill, seeking their lowest level unless something interdicts them.

Cal Thomas