Michelangelo Buonarroti

 "If people only knew how hard I work 

to gain my mastery, it wouldn't seem 

so wonderful at all.."

Michelangelo Buonarroti

Ossie Davis

 “Any form of art is a form of power; 

it has impact, it can affect change 

it can not only move us, it makes us move.”

Ossie Davis

Alice Walker

 "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise."

Alice Walker

Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Nothing great was ever 

achieved without enthusiasm.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Langston Hughes

 "I tire so of hearing people say, 

let things take their course. Tomorrow is 

another day. I do not need my freedom 

when I'm dead. I cannot live on tomorrow's bread."

Langston Hughes

John Perry Barlow

 “The Internet treats censorship as 

a malfunction and routes around it.”
John Perry Barlow

J. R. R. Tolkien

 "It does not do to leave a live dragon 

out of your calculations, if you live near him."
J. R. R. Tolkien

Robert Frost

 “The brain is a wonderful organ; 

it starts working the moment you 

get up in the morning and does not 

stop until you get into the office.”
Robert Frost

Kenneth Patchen

 “There are so many little dyings 

that it doesn't matter which of them is death.”
Kenneth Patchen

Samuel Johnson

 "All knowledge is of itself of some value. 

There is nothing so minute or inconsiderable that I 

would not rather know it than not."
Samuel Johnson

Robert Anton Wilson

"If you think you know what the hell is going on, 

you're probably full of shit."
Robert Anton Wilson

Edith Sitwell

I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.

Edith Sitwell

Charles Bukiwski

Some people never go crazy.
What truly horrible lives they must live.
Charles Bukiwski

Dorothy Parker

I'm never going to be famous. I don't do anything, not one single thing. I used to bite my nails, but I don't even do that any more.
Dorothy Parker

J.R.R. Tolkien

You can only come to the morning through the shadows.
J.R.R. Tolkien

Thich Nhat Hanh

We are here to awaken from our illusion of separateness.
Thich Nhat Hanh

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

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.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Walt Whitman

Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes.
Walt Whitman

Emily Dickinson

Whenever a thing is done for the first time,
it releases a little demon.
Emily Dickinson

James Baldwin

I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.
James Baldwin