“The same word we love and hate, leaves in different directions, taking different paths.”
Dejan Stojanovic (1959) poet, writer, and businessman
“A Word,” p. 54
The Sun Watches the Sun (1999), Sequence: “A Stone and a Word”
Variant: We all take different paths in life, but no matter where we go, we take a little of each other everyhwere.
“The same word we love and hate, leaves in different directions, taking different paths.”
Dejan Stojanovic (1959) poet, writer, and businessman
“A Word,” p. 54
The Sun Watches the Sun (1999), Sequence: “A Stone and a Word”
“The path of progress is the path we take towards our future.”
Benson Taylor (1983) composer and music producer from the United Kingdom
Twitter Post 2016 https://twitter.com/_bensontaylor/status/808033605469564929
Charles de Lint (1951) author
"Paperjack" in Dreams Underfoot : The Newford Collection (2003), p. 396
Context: It's the questions we ask, the journey we take to get to where we are going that is more important than the actual answer. It's good to have mysteries. It reminds us that there's more to the world than just making do and having a bit of fun.
“Each for himself is still the rule
We learn it when we go to school—
The devil take the hindmost, O!”
Arthur Hugh Clough (1819–1861) English poet
In the Great Metropolis http://whitewolf.newcastle.edu.au/words/authors/C/CloughArthurHugh/verse/poemsproseremains/greatmetropolis.html, st. 1.
Dean Koontz (1945) American author
Source: A Big Little Life: A Memoir of a Joyful Dog