Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot return. Wystan Hugh Auden, an Anglo-American poet....
Knowing others is wisdom; Knowing the self is enlightenment. Mastering others requires force; Mastering the self requires strength; He who knows he has enough is rich. Perseverance is a sign of will p...
One will surely understand what I consider to be the function of poetry. It is to nourish the spirit of man by giving him the cosmos to suckle. Francis Ponge, a French essayist and poet....
Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties. Erich Fromm, a German-American philosopher and psychologist....
Problems are only opportunities with thorns in them. Hugh Miller, a Scottish geologist and writer....
Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in getting up every time we do. Confucius, the great Chinese philosopher....
The good Lord gave the director two eyes – one to look into the camera, the other to be alert to everything that is going on around him. Andrzej Wajda, a Polish film director...
There is only one reason for literature to exist, to save those who write it from the tedium of living. J. K. Hyusmans, the French author...
William A. Bougereau – The Abduction of Psyche For the Quotes on the Front Page today I chose a beautiful sonnet 22 by William Shakespeare. Although it speaks of the age difference, I pay but a ...
Your characters are mute, so to say; but they make me speak, and that I speak to myself. Tes personnages sont muets, si tu veux; mais ils font que je me parle, et que je m’entretiens avec moi-me...