Quotation Saturday

A true poem is distinguished not so much by a felicitous expression, or any thought it suggests, as by the atmosphere which surrounds it.

~Henry David Thoreau

Some people are making such thorough preparations for rainy days that they aren’t enjoying today’s sunshine.

~William Feather (1889-1981)Writer and publisher

Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression. The chasm is never completely bridged. We all have the conviction, perhaps illusory, that we have much more to say than appears on the paper.
~ Isaac Bashevis Singer

Pen names are masks that allow us to unmask ourselves. ~C. Astrid Weber
It is the little writer rather than the great writer who seems never to quote, and the reason is that he is never really doing anything else.
~Havelock Ellis

I am a man, and alive.... For this reason I am a novelist. And being a novelist, I consider myself superior to the saint, the scientist, the philosopher, and the poet, who are all great masters of different bits of man alive, but never get the whole hog.
~D.H. Lawrence, preface to Shestov, All Things Are Possible, 1938

It is impossible to discourage the real writers - they don't give a damn what you say, they're going to write.
~Sinclair Lewis

Dancing in all its forms cannot be excluded from the curriculum of all noble education; dancing with the feet, with ideas, with words, and, need I add that one must also be able to dance with the pen?
~Friedrich Nietzsche

What things there are to write, if one could only write them! My mind is full of gleaming thought; gay moods and mysterious, moth-like meditations hover in my imagination, fanning their painted wings. But always the rarest, those streaked with azure and the deepest crimson, flutter away beyond my reach.
~Logan Pearsall Smith