J. B. Hughes Quotes
I've known rivers:I've known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of human blood in human veins.My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
Sometimes a crumb fallsFrom the tables of joy, Sometimes a boneIs flung.To some peopleLove is given, To othersOnly heaven.
OppressionNow dreamsAre not availableTo the dreamers, Nor songsTo the singers.In some landsDark nightAnd cold steelPrevail--But the dreamWill come back, And the songBreakIts jail.
Perhaps the mission of an artist is to interpret beauty to people - the beauty within themselves.
In all my life, I have never been free. I have never been able to do anything with freedom, except in the field of my writing.
God is the supreme uncreated light of which Wisdom is born, but there was never a time when God's Wisdom did not exist.
Nobody wanted your dance, Nobody wanted your strange glitter, your flounderingDrowning life and your effort to save yourself, Treading water, dancing the dark turmoil, Looking for something to give.
But artists didn't need to achieve "firsts", and Hughes wanted to be an artist.
I cringed as the band oozed into the next chord. If notes were cars, I think there was a D major under the wreckage.
Do not think me a maiden who needs saving from a dragon. I am the dragon, and I will set the world aflame.
Every day is an adventure, or it's just some thing you do. It's your choice.
Even the most misfitting childWho's chanced upon the library's worth, Sits with the genius of the EarthAnd turns the key to the whole world.--"Hear It Again
I try not to judge people. It's wrong and unfair and a terrible way to go about being a human.
In writing these poems about relatives, I found it almost impossible to write about the mother. I was stuck. My feelings about my mother, you see, must be too complicated to easily flow into words.
In life things often go wrong, and the future rarely happens the way you think it will.
The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation p
So we found the end of our journey.So we stood, alive in the river of light, Among the creatures of light, creatures of light.
The truly scary thing about undiscovered lies is that they have a greater capacity to diminish us than exposed ones.
Blessed are they who have the gift of making friends, for it is one of God's best gifts.
From key signature to coda, from downbeat to the sound of life's final fermata, our pasts set the tone for all that was, that is, and that ever would be.
Sometimes people do misguided things for the most honorable of reasons.
You are an exceedingly beautiful mystery, one that intrigues me and one that I plan to solve.
He had an overwhelming urge to take possession of her lips, silencing any mention of another man’s name.
He finished his drink. 'I don’t like mornings either, ' he said. “That’s why I’m a writer.
The only woman who would wear a gown like this one, love, is one who knows the power she wields and isn’t afraid to use it.
Charity followed the pirate. To salvation or to hell, she would soon find out.
Sometimes I feel so alone in the world. A tiny speck of nothing in a sea of emptiness.
Author refers to, "short silences in which the resolves which colour a life are so often taken.
God Provides by divine Power through knowledge of His Promises so that we Participate in divine nature in godliness.
After a sharp inward struggle, he concluded to stay and see it out. He should despise himself, more than he cared to face, if he gave in now.
The giving of undue prominence to one fact brings others inexorably on the head of the student to avenge his neglect of them,
The power of well a formulated question unlocks the mind, frees the spirit and allows the imagination to realize a vision through the clarity of intent.
Those were times when brave men who knew and loved their profession couldn't be overlooked.
A student was given a mentoring opportunity, "in the hope that when you had somebody to lean on you, you would begin to stand a little steadier yourself, and get manliness and thoughtfulness.
The only thing people regret is that they didn't live boldy enough, that they didn't invest enough heart, didn't love enough. Nothing else really counts at all.