horse poem

Poetry is frosted fire. ~J. Patrick Lewis, www.jpatricklewis.com


Education is the movement from darkness to light. ~Allan Bloom


When words leave off, music begins. ~Heinrich Heine


Often the difference between a successful marriage and a mediocre one consists of leaving about three or four things a day unsaid. ~Harlan Miller


God understands our prayers even when we can't find the words to say them. ~Author Unknown


Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its own melting. ~Robert Frost


To sensible men, every day is a day of reckoning. ~John W. Gardner


Arithmetic is where numbers fly like pigeons in and out of your head. ~Carl Sandburg, "Arithmetic"


To most outsiders, modern mathematics is unknown territory. Its borders are protected by dense thickets of technical terms; its landscapes are a mass of indecipherable equations and incomprehensible concepts. Few realize that the world of modern mathematics is rich with vivid images and provocative ideas. ~Ivars Peterson


The people who live in a golden age usually go around complaining how yellow everything looks. ~Randall Jarrell


I don't love baseball. I don't love most of today's players. I don't love the owners. I do love, however, the baseball that is in the heads of baseball fans. I love the dreams of glory of 10-year-olds, the reminiscences of 70-year-olds. The greatest baseball arena is in our heads, what we bring to the games, to the telecasts, to reading newspaper reports. ~Stan Isaacs, "Diamond-Studded Memories," Newsday, 9 April 1990


The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs less. ~Brendan Francis, Playboy, 1985


We all travel the milky way together, trees and men... trees are travellers, in the ordinary sense. They make journeys, not very extensive ones, it is true: but our own little comes and goes are only little more than tree-wavings - many of them not so much. ~John Muir, Scribner's Monthly, November 1878


America is a great big heart attack. ~Carrie Latet


Fishing tournaments seem a little like playing tennis with living balls... ~Jim Harrison, Just Before Dark, 1991


Flying is the second best thrill to cheerleaders; being caught is the first. ~Author Unknown


The hardest work in the world is being out of work. ~Whitney Young, Jr.


Understanding the laws of nature does not mean that we are immune to their operations. ~David Gerrold


The negative is the equivalent of the composer's score, and the print the performance. ~Ansel Adams The Negro is the child of two cultures - Africa and America. The problem is that in the search for wholeness all too many Negroes seek to embrace only one side of their natures. ~Martin Luther King, Jr., Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?, 1967


Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle. ~Plato