Escritas - Poems List

Per Wimmer

You cannot discover new oceans

You cannot discover new oceans unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore

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Neil Sack

Meintjes seems to be concerned

Meintjes seems to be concerned not only with the moment of reality, but the preparation before it, and the length of time that lies beyond it… It is the resulting quality of timelessness that is so strangely moving

18

Damon Knight

van Vogt is not a

van Vogt is not a giant as often maintained. He's only a pygmy using a giant typewriter

32

Terry Pratchett

Pride is all very well,

Pride is all very well, but a sausage is a sausage

82

Dan Bolser

Pay? I've forgotten how!

21

Wendell Phillips

Revolutions are not made, they

Revolutions are not made, they come.

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Wendell Phillips

Responsibility educates.

83

Wendell Phillips

What gunpowder did for war

What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.

88

Wendell Phillips

If you want to be

If you want to be an orator, first get your great cause.

82

Wendell Phillips

Many know how to flatter,

Many know how to flatter, few know how to praise.

87

Wendell Phillips

One on God's side is

One on God's side is a majority.

81

Wendell Phillips

Law is nothing unless close

Law is nothing unless close behind it stands a warm, living public opinion.

66

Wendell Phillips

Write on my gravestone: Infidel,

Write on my gravestone: Infidel, Traitor.--infidel to every church that compromises with wrong; traitor to every government that oppresses the people.

137

Wendell Phillips

What the Puritans gave the

What the Puritans gave the world was not thought, but action.

94

Lorenzo Ferrero

Seldom have I found in

Seldom have I found in the ritual music of the Catholic church a quality so convincing that there is no need to mourn the past. Without going into a complicated maze of aesthetics, we can define quality as a certain something which is not inferior to what the external world offers, such as to render every Christian proud of his own music.

27

Lorenzo Ferrero

No music book has ever

No music book has ever succeeded in miraculously replacing the listening experience.

21

Terence

What harsh judges fathers are

What harsh judges fathers are to all young men!

150

Terence

Nothing is said which has

Nothing is said which has not been said before.

116

Terence

They are so knowing, that

They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

123

Terence

How unfair the fate which

How unfair the fate which ordains that those who have the least should be always adding to the treasury of the wealthy.

140

Terence

While the mind is in

While the mind is in doubt it is driven this way and that by a slight impulse.

134

Terence

To touch a sore is

To touch a sore is to renew one's grief.

134

Terence

Riches get their value from

Riches get their value from the mind of the possessor; they are blessings to those who know how to use them, and curses to those who do not.

120

Terence

I do not give money

I do not give money for just mere hopes.

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