Sunday Quotes #5

Trust your heart if the seas catch fire, love by love though the stars walk backwards.
-ee cummings-

The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved -- loved for ourselves, or rather, in spite of ourselves.
-Victor Hugo-

Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression; in order that every man present his views without penalty there must be a spirit of tolerance in the entire population.
-Albert Einstein-

Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends, but is played out over and over again in the quietest chambers. The mind can never break off from the journey.
-Pat Conroy-

Understand, I'll slip quietly
Away from the noisy crowd
When I see the pale
Stars rising, blooming over the oaks
I'll pursue solitary pathways
Through the pale twilit meadows,
With only this one dream:
You come too.
-Rainer Maria Rilke-
First Poems

The test of true literature is, I suppose, whether we ourselves live more intensely for the reading of it.
-Elizabeth Drew-