Famous quotes containing the words paul, williams, haiku and/or books:
“That for which Paul lived and died so gloriously; that for which Jesus gave himself to be crucified; the end that animated the thousand martyrs and heroes who have followed his steps, was to redeem us from a formal religion, and teach us to seek our well-being in the formation of the soul.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Practical to the end,
it is the poem
of his existence
that triumphed
finally;”
—William Carlos Williams (1883–1963)
“The haiku lets meaning float; the aphorism pins it down.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“The novel is the one bright book of life. Books are not life. They are only tremulations on the ether. But the novel as a tremulation can make the whole man alive tremble.”
—D.H. (David Herbert)