sometimes, i like to create quote collages for no particular reason. also, i am in love with walt whitman. and would like to start memorizing some poetry. maybe i shall start with walt.



Every man is wise when attacked by a mad dog; fewer when pursued by a mad woman; only the wisest survive when attacked by a mad notion.
- Robertson Davies

Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
- George Bernard Shaw

Competence, like truth, beauty and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.
- Laurence J. Peter

After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on - have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear - what remains? Nature remains.
-Walt Whitman

All faults may be forgiven of him who has perfect candor.
-Walt Whitman

And your very flesh shall be a great poem.
-Walt Whitman

Behold I do not give lectures or a little charity, When I give I give myself.
-Walt Whitman

Give me the splendid silent sun with all his beams full-dazzling.
-Walt Whitman

If any thing is sacred the human body is sacred.
-Walt Whitman

The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.
-Walt Whitman

The poet judges not as a judge judges but as the sun falling around a helpless thing.
-Walt Whitman

Now I see the secret of the making of the best persons. It is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.
-Walt Whitman

Above all, create silence in your interior. Let that ardent desire to see God arise from the depth of your hearts... -Pope John Paul II

If you are what you should be, you will set the whole world ablaze. - St. Catherine of Siena

The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too.
-Saint Teresa of Avila