“The notion that the whole world is spiritualized, even supposedly inanimate things, forces a reconceptualization of the world. So, from the Anishinaabe point of view, nothing is dead or inert. All things are alive. What this means is that everything is vibrant, dynamic, energetic, and in a complete state of flux.”
from Anishinaabe Ways of Knowing and Being by Lawrence W. Gross
“These are the days when man has his hands on the sublime while he is up to his hips in the muck of madness.”
from Rules for Radicals by Saul Alinsky
“For it is rash to walk into a lion’s den unarmed, rash to navigate the the Atlantic in a rowing boat, rash to stand on one foot on the top of St. Paul’s, it is still more rash to go home alone with a poet.”
from Orlando by Virginia Woolf
“…and to find oneself where one has longed to be always, to a reflective mind, gives food for thought. For some time, however, she was too well pleased with the change to spoil it by thinking.”
from Orlando by Virginia Woolf
“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
Jorge Luis Borges
“The composition of vast books is a laborious and impoverishing extravagance… A better course of procedure is to pretend that these books already exist, and then to offer a resume, a commentary… More reasonable, more inept, more indolent, I have preferred to write notes upon imaginary books.”
Jorge Luis Borges
“And a man without dreams is just a meaty machine with a broken gauge.”
Miigwans in The Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline
“What lies beyond is full of marvels and unreality, a land of poets and fabulists, of doubt and obscurity.”
Plutarch
Solomon Everta 