Wisdom Quote by John Berryman — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“These Songs are not meant to be understood, you understand.”

“I do strongly feel that among the greatest pieces of luck for high achievement is ordeal. Certain great artists can make out without it, Titian and others, but mostly you need ordeal. My idea is this: the artist is extremely lucky who is presented with the worst possible ordeal which will not actually kill him. At that point, he's in business: Beethoven's deafness, Goya's deafness, Milton's blindness, that kind of thing.”

“Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors. The library connects us with the insight and knowledge, painfully extracted from Nature, of the greatest minds that ever were, with the best teachers, drawn from the entire planet and from all our history, to instruct us without tiring, and to inspire us to make our own contribution to the collective knowledge of the human species. I think the health of our civilization, the depth of our awareness about the underpinnings of our culture and our concern for the future can all be tested by how well we support our libraries.”

“Nothing is as fragile as a system built on obedience. One frightened whisper can topple it.”

“Poverty is a nation with no borders and he is no foreigner in it but a native son.”

“Be generous with your smile and try not to frown.”

“In the universe, we are only experiencing what was, in a most furnished, modern, fine-tuned, polished, and advanced manner because cycle of nature is same.”

“Featherweight by Suzy Kassem”