In Mexico we have a word for sushi: Bait. Jose Simon Listen. Do not have an opinion while you listen because frankly, your opinion doesn’t hold much water outside of Your Universe. Just listen. Listen until their brain has been twisted like a dripping towel and what they have to say is all over the floor. Hugh Elliott, Standing Room Only weblog, 02-14-2003 Author of the Standing Room Only Weblog (http://blogs.salon.com/0001573/). Poetry comes nearer to vital truth than history. Plato Greek author & philosopher in Athens (427 BC - 347 BC) Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat. Robert Frost US poet (1874 - 1963) Poetry is the utterance of deep and heartfelt truth. The true poet is very near the oracle. Edward Hubbell Chaplin Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair. Kahlil Gibran Lebanese artist & poet in US (1883 - 1931) If you wish to know the divine, feel the wind on your face and the warm sun on your back. Eido Tai Shimano Roshi When words leave off, music begins. Thomas Carlyle Scottish author, essayist, & historian (1795 - 1881) Love is letting go of fear. Gerald Jampolsky It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either. Mark Twain US humorist, novelist, short story author, & wit (1835 - 1910) |