The battle with the gods thus hinges on our own mortality! Creativity is a yearning for immortality.

It is highly significant and indeed almost a rule, that moral courage has its source in such identification through one's own sensitivity with suffering of one's fellow human beings." (p. 16-17)

Whereas moral courage is the righting of wrongs, creative courage, in contrast, is the discovering of new forms, new symbols, new patterns on which a new society can be built.

Poets may be delightful creatures in the meadow or the garret, but they are menaces on the assembly line.

Consciousness is the awareness that emerges out of the dialectical tension between possibilities and limitations.

Courage is not a virtue or value among other personal values like love o fidelity. It is the foundations that underlies and gives reality to all other virtue and personal values. (p. 13)

Escapist creativity is that which lacks encounter.

The relationship between commitment and doubt is by no means an antagonistic one. Commitment is healthiest when it is not without doubt, but in spite of doubt. (p. 21)

Courage is not a virtue or value among other personal values like love or fidelity. It is the foundations that underlies and gives reality to all other virtue and personal values. (p. 13)

Just as the poet is a menace to conformity, he is also a constant threat to political dictators. He is always on the verge of blowing up the assembly line of political power.

You only take revenge upon your own body of soul.Religious Leader Petra Cecilia Maria HermansReligion Of Blue CircleOctober 30, 2016Babaji

You know you're big when you sit in the bathtub and the water in the toilet rises.

Honesty can be a dirty gift.

When you share the gospel, you're not calling people to a better way of life, you're proclaiming to them eternal life.

a short cut to matrimonial unhappiness is not to have the same taste in jokes!

Right now, I don't believe [Donald Trump]. I don't trust him.

Immortality. I notice that as soon as writers broach this question they begin to quote. I hate quotation. Tell me what you know.

I still hate [the Eagles]…. There’s levels of evil in it to me.

The end of commercial fishing is predicted long before the middle of the 21st century.

But it doesn't take a thousand men to open a door, my lord." "It might to keep it open.