“Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.”
– Henry David Thoreau
Quotes
Writer’s Quote Wednesday
My entry for Silver Threading’s Writer’s Quote Wednesday this week is from Zora Neale Hurston’s Dust Tracks on a Road:
“I have been in Sorrow’s kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have stood on the peaky mountain wrapped in rainbows, with a harp and a sword in my hands.”
– Zora Neale Hurston, Dust Tracks on a Road
I love using imagery and symbolism with my writing so this quote is very inspiring to me. I love the way she lends us a pictorial version of the words. The up close and personal relationship with grief contrasted against the achievement of ones dreams by having climbed the highest mountain, and the added serenity of being wrapped in rainbows. And while there is music, there is still a pending fight to endure, so she balances the music with a weapon of war.
http://silverthreading.com/2014/12/17/writers-quote-wednesday-121714-c-s-lewis/
Opportunities
“We are all faced with a series of great opportunities – brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems”. – John Gardner
Something 2 Think About
“The remarkable thing is that we really love our neighbor as ourselves: we do unto others as we do unto ourselves. We hate others when we hate ourselves. We are tolerant toward others when we tolerate ourselves. We forgive others when we forgive ourselves. We are prone to sacrifice others when we are ready to sacrifice ourselves.”
– Eric Hoffer
It Costs Nothing but is Worth More
“Nothing is ever lost by courtesy. It is the cheapest of pleasures, costs nothing, and conveys much.”
-Erastus Wiman
Each One, Teach One
“Learn to regard the souls around you as parts of some grand instrument. It is for each of us to know the keys and stops, that we may draw forth the harmonies that lie sleeping in the silent octaves”
– Anonymous
A Poet’s Pen
“Just because you put a poet’s pen in your mouth doesn’t mean you know how to spit ink.”
– X Blu Rayne
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