R.J. Lawrence Quotes

We have seen the best minds of our generation destroyed by boredom at poetry readings.

The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted.

The dead don't die. They look on and help.

I'm a cocky sumb**itch. That's what makes me such a great player.

Let us fear to leave Him. Let us be always with Him. Let us live and die in His presence.

I did not pray for any relief, but I prayed for strength to suffer with courage, humility and love.

The people of England have been led in Mesopotamia into a trap from which it will be hard to escape with dignity and honor.

Vitally, the human race is dying. It is like a great uprooted tree, with its roots in the air. We must plant ourselves again in the universe.

I started to write an apology, but I don't have anything to say I'm sorry for.

I got the blues thinking of the future, so I left off and made some marmalade. It's amazing how it cheers one up to shred orange and scrub the floor.

You have a choice. You don’t have to be a person who spreads negativity and lies for a living. You can do something good. You can be good. Let’s just make that choice and — it feels better.

Loving God and loving one's neighbor are really the same thing.

This creed of the desert seemed inexpressible in words, and indeed in thought.

The autumn always gets me badly, as it breaks into colours. I want to go south, where there is no autumn, where the cold doesn't crouch over one like a snow-leopard waiting to pounce.

Right action tends to be defined in terms of general individual rights and standards that have been critically examined and agreed upon by the whole society.

The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them.

The desert is an ocean in which no oar is dipped.

The fact is that people would rather cling when they're afraid of something to a priori beliefs than rather open their minds about it.

Football is not a game for the weak of heart, because every day you've got a hundred reasons to take all those pads off and say, 'F-k it.'

Reach me a gentian, give me a torch! let me guide myself with the blue, forked torch of this flower

Ours is an excessively conscious age. We know so much, we feel so little.

For man, as for flower and beast and bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly, most perfectly alive.

It is a shame when nonsense can substitute for fact with impunity.

Never trust anyone completely but God. Love people, but put your full trust only in God.

If a woman hasn't got a tiny streak of harlot in her, she's a dry stick as a rule.

I like to write when I feel spiteful; it's like having a good sneeze.

To have news value is to have a tin can tied to one's tail.

No form of love is wrong, so long as it is love, and you yourself honour what you are doing. Love has an extraordinary variety of forms! And that is all that there is in life, it seems to me.

I do have big ambitions, but I think we all do. I just want to keep working hard and being happy.

To say one is revolutionary is a little like saying one is a Zen Buddhist - if you say you are, you probably aren't.

Art that imposes conditions - human or otherwise - on the receiver for its appreciation in my eyes constitutes aesthetic fascism.

Life is a travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken.

The first mystery is simply that there is a mystery, a mystery that can never be explained or understood, only encountered from time to time. Nothing is obvious. Everything conceals something else.

The Sphinx-riddle. Solve it, or be torn to bits, is the decree.

The art has to make it on its own, without explanations, and it’s the same for poetry. If the poem or the painting has to be explained, then it’s a failure in communication.

One must learn to love, and go through a good deal of suffering to get to it... and the journey is always towards the other soul.

In the way of God, thoughts count very little. Love does it all.

Music is only love looking for words.

Schooling is what happens inside the wall of the school, some of which is educational. Education happens everywhere, and it happens from the moment a child is born-some say before-until it dies.

There is no evolving, only unfolding. The lily is in the bit of dust which is its beginning, lily and nothing but lily: and the lily in blossom is a ne plus ultra: there is no evolving beyond.

There are guys who want to shoot the last shot and others who want to pass off. I want that last shot.

Part of teaching is helping students learn how to tolerate ambiguity, consider possibilities, and ask questions that are unanswerable.

Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection.

No individual is alone responsible for a single stepping stone along the path of progress, and where the path is smooth progress is most rapid.

How beautiful maleness is, if it finds its right expression.

Hold up your hands before your eyes. You are looking at the hands of God.

A good rule of thumb for many things in life holds that things take longer to happen than you think they will, and then happen faster than you thought they could.

The printing press is the greatest weapon in the armoury of the modern commander.

I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets.

Constantly risking absurdity and death whenever he performs above the heads of his audience, the poet, like an acrobat, climbs on rhyme to a high wire of his own making.