Yves Bonnefoy Quotes

#1. Since fire's born of fire, why should we desire
To gather up its scattered ash.
On the appointed day we surrendered what we were
To a vaster blaze, the evening sky.

Yves Bonnefoy

#2. Clouds, this evening
The same as always, like thirst,
The same red dress, unfastened.
Imagine, passerby,
Our new beginnings, our eagerness, our trust.

Yves Bonnefoy

#3. America is the first country ... that can actually have a bloodless revolution.

Malcolm X

#4. The player who puts the ball through the hoop has ten hands.

John Wooden

#5. Unknowing, let us sleep. Chest against chest,
Our breathing mingled, hand in hand without dreams.

Yves Bonnefoy

#6. Let our bodies try
To ford a wider time,
Our hands not know
The other shore.

Yves Bonnefoy

#7. Anyway, what does mad mean exactly?" Rami added quickly "Aren't we all a little mad? Don't we have to be somehat mad just to go on living, to go on hoping?

Tabitha Suzuma

#8. Sing your song, and if nobody listens, sing it alone and enjoy it.

Osho

#9. I don't see making films to entertain and making films to inform as separate things.

Tom Shadyac

#10. Warming of the climate system is unequivocal ... most of the global average warming over the past 50 years is very likely due to anthropogenic greenhouse gases increases ...

Rajendra K. Pachauri

#11. I had a very simple life growing up in the farm country outside of Perugia, and biscotti and warm milk with a tiny bit of coffee were a big part of my morning ritual before walking to school.

Brunello Cucinelli

#12. Our hands full or not:
The same abundance.
Our eyes open or shut:
The same light.

Yves Bonnefoy