“Therefore, dark past,
I’m about to do it.
I’m about to forgive you
for everything.”
Mary Oliver (1935–2019) American writer
Source: The Wine of Violence (1981), Chapter 13 (p. 157)
“Therefore, dark past,
I’m about to do it.
I’m about to forgive you
for everything.”
Mary Oliver (1935–2019) American writer
Lisa Goldstein book A Mask for the General
Source: A Mask for the General (1987), Chapter 8 (p. 137)
“And throughout all eternity
I forgive you, you forgive me.”
William Blake (1757–1827) English Romantic poet and artist
My Specter, st. 14
1800s, Poems from Blake's Notebook (c. 1804)
Paul Cézanne (1839–1906) French painter
Quote of 1906 from a letter; cited in Paul Cézanne, Letters ed. John Rewald, New York, Da Capro Press, 1995, p. 313
Quotes of Paul Cezanne, after 1900
“The presentation of facts in logical form contributes to a confusion between discovery and proof.”
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan (1888–1975) Indian philosopher and statesman who was the first Vice President and the second President of India
Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Context: The presentation of facts in logical form contributes to a confusion between discovery and proof. If the process of discovery were mere synthesis, any mechanical manipulator of prior partial concepts would have reached the insight and it would not have taken a genius to arrive at it.
“You must forgive me, for I struggled only for you.”
Emily Brontë book Wuthering Heights
Source: Wuthering Heights
“Forgive me if what has seemed little to you, to me is all.”
José Saramago (1922–2010) Portuguese writer and recipient of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Literature
Nobel Lecture (1998)