Mary Oliver (1935–2019) American writer
"So every day"
Red Bird (2008)
Mary Oliver (1935–2019) American writer
"So every day"
Red Bird (2008)
“When one does not love the impossible, one does not love anything.”
Antonio Porchia (1885–1968) Italian Argentinian poet
Cuando no se quiere lo imposible, no se quiere.
Voces (1943)
Fred Dibnah (1938–2004) English steeplejack and television personality, with a keen interest in mechanical engineering
Unsourced
“You better live every day like your last because one day you're going to be right.”
Ray Charles (1930–2004) American musician
As quoted in Wisdom for the Soul of Black Folk (2007) by Larry Chang and Roderick Terry, p. 365
“And for one beautiful day there was peace.”
Ezra Pound (1885–1972) American Imagist poet and critic
Notes for CXVII et seq
Drafts and Fragments of Cantos CX-CXVII
Imre Kertész (1929–2016) Hungarian writer
Source: Detective Story (2008), p. 66.
Context: "You mustn’t forget about your future, Enrique."
"I’m living for the present, Dad."
"Ah!" he waved that aside. "The present is just temporary."
‘ I boiled up. "I know," I burst out. ‘It only has to be accepted temporarily — temporarily, but every day afresh. And every day ever more. Temporarily. Until we have lived to the end of our temporary lives, and one fine day we temporarily die.
Immortal Technique (1978) American rapper and activist
Crimes Of The Heart
Albums, The 3rd World (2008)