Ivan > Ivan's Quotes

“Dios ha muerto, el arte dejó de existir, la historia ha llegado a su fin, y yo mismo no me siento del todo bien.”
― Umberto Eco

“I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

“Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”
― Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx

“Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.”
― Narcotics Anonymous

“I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.”
― Groucho Marx

“Poetry is what gets lost in translation.”
― Robert Frost

“A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.”
― Yevgeny Yevtushenko

“I don't know the question, but sex is definitely the answer.”
― Woody Allen

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“Do I dare
Disturb the universe?
In a minute there is time
For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.”
― T.S. Eliot

“A good poem is a contribution to reality. The world is never the same once a good poem has been added to it. A good poem helps to change the shape of the universe, helps to extend everyone's knowledge of himself and the world around him.”
― Dylan Thomas

“A poet's work . . . to name the unnamable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world and stop it from going to sleep.”
― Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses

“I read; I travel; I become”
― Derek Walcott

“Haber nacido me ha estropeado la salud.”
― Clarice Lispector