“It is easy to see the glow but hard to recognize the awakening of silence.”
Dejan Stojanovic (1959) poet, writer, and businessman
“A Flash of Silence,” p. 109
The Sun Watches the Sun (1999), Sequence: “Is It Possible to Write a Poem”
Birthday Poem for Thomas Hardy (1949)
“It is easy to see the glow but hard to recognize the awakening of silence.”
Dejan Stojanovic (1959) poet, writer, and businessman
“A Flash of Silence,” p. 109
The Sun Watches the Sun (1999), Sequence: “Is It Possible to Write a Poem”
“I could die in peace, I think, if the world was beautiful. To know it's being ruined is hard.”
Wendell Berry (1934) author
Source: Jayber Crow
Saul D. Alinsky (1909–1972) American community organizer and writer
Source: Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals
Steve Jobs (1955–2011) American entrepreneur and co-founder of Apple Inc.
On his return as interim CEO of Apple, as quoted in TIME magazine (18 August 1997)
1990s
“the meaning of kindness is hard to define, words you believe to be nice could be hurt to others”
Ritsuko Okazaki (1959–2004) Japanese singer
A Happy Life, Rain or Shine
Lyrics
Gregory Maguire book Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
Source: Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
“We are all worms. But I do believe I am a glow-worm.”
Winston S. Churchill (1874–1965) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
As quoted by Violet Bonham-Carter in Winston Churchill as I Knew Him (1965), according to The Yale Book of Quotations (2006), Fred R. Shapiro, Yale University Press, p. 155 ISBN 0300107986
Post-war years (1945–1955)
Source: Never Give In!: The Best of Winston Churchill's Speeches
Kim Stanley Robinson book The Years of Rice and Salt
Book 4: "The Alchemist", § 11
The Years of Rice and Salt (2002)
“To work hard, to live hard, to die hard, and then go to hell after all would be too damn hard.”
Carl Sandburg (1878–1967) American writer and editor