Quotations

This quotation captured me yesterday: 

 "by 'poet' I mean the broadest sense of a creative maker of meaningful space."  

 (in Radical Hope by Jonathan Lear)

Here are a few others that are engraved in my heart:

"we live in a world of suffering in which evil is rampant, a world whose events do not confirm our Being, a world that has to be resisted. It is in this situation that the aesthetic moment offers hope . . . For an instant, the energy of one's perception becomes inseparable from the energy of creation. . . . All the languages of art have been developed as an attempt to transform the instantaneous into the permanent. Art supposes that beauty is not an exception--is not in despite of--but is the basis for an order. . . . . the transcendental face of art is always a form of prayer."  

(John Berger)

Don't ask yourself what the world needs.
Ask yourself what makes you come alive and then go do that.
Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
(Howard Thurman)