I don't believe in journalists having 'responsibility. '
Fields and trees are not willing to teach me anything; but this can be effected by men residing in the city.
He who is of a calm and happy nature, will hardly feel the pressure of age
The most important part of education is proper training in the nursery.
'But the man who is ready to taste every form of knowledge, is glad to learn and never satisfied - he's the man who deserves to be called a philosopher, isn't he?'
Hardly any human being is capable of pursuing two professions or two arts rightly.
The whole life of the philosopher is a preparation for death.
The better you learn to take care of yourself, the less you settle for being around people who can't or won't treat you as well as you're accustomed.
With Head Off & Split, Nikky Finney establishes herself as one of the most eloquent, urgent, fearless and necessary poets writing in America today. What makes this book as important as anything published in the last decade is the irresistible music, the formal dexterity and the imaginative leaps she makes with metaphor and language in these simply stunning poems. This is a very, very important achievement.
No animal has to suffer for me to live.
Great things in business are never done by one person, they're done by a team of people.