Kathy > Kathy's Quotes

“The older I become, the more I understand Mr. Girandole's look of sadness and what he must have been thinking then. These games with tangerine peels... the times of little wide-eyed girls arriving on the terrace, and boys with notebooks... none of it lasted for more than a breath. Time never turned backward. Summer gave way to winter, and summer came again, and year by year, the vines lengthened, and the sharp detail faded from the statues- scales becoming ripples, passion becoming tranquility. Each time Mr. Girandole saw Grandmother, he looked at her like we all ought to look at one another, every time.”
― Frederic S. Durbin, A Green and Ancient Light

“I had reached a way-marker on the path to adulthood-- the first dividing of my heart. To live in this world, I realized, is to leave pieces of your heart in various places; and to move toward any place is to move away from another.”
― Frederic S. Durbin, A Green and Ancient Light

“Everything must be made as simple as possible. But not simpler.”
― Albert Einstein

“The blazing fire makes flames and brightness out of everything thrown into it.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“[Marianne Moore's definition of genuine poetry] -- Imaginary gardens with real toads in them.”
― Marianne Moore

“grows like a seed in the dark out of the leaf-mould of the mind: out of all that has been seen or thought or read, that has long ago been forgotten, descending into the deeps.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien

“When all your desires are distilled
You will cast just two votes:
To love more,
And be happy.”
― Hafez