"How beautiful is youth! how bright it gleams with its illusions, aspirations, dreams! Book of Beginnings, Story without End, Each maid a heroine, and each man a friend!"

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth | Youth | 8 bookmarks

"Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken."

Card, Orson Scott | Words | 11 bookmarks

"Every time history repeats itself the price goes up."

Unknown, Source | History and Historians | 2 bookmarks

"Nature has no mercy at all. Nature says, I'm going to snow. If you have on a bikini and no snowshoes, that's tough. I am going to snow anyway."

Angelou, Maya | Nature | 5 bookmarks

"The words of the world want to make sentences."

Bachelard, Gaston | Words | 6 bookmarks

"I remember my youth and the feeling that will never come back any more --the feeling that I could last for ever, outlast the sea, the earth, and all men; the deceitful feeling that lures us on to joys, to perils, to love, to vain effort --to death; the triumphant conviction of strength, the heat of life in the handful of dust, the glow in the heart that with every year grows dim, grows cold, grows small, and expires --and expires, too soon, too soon --before life itself."

Conrad, Joseph | Youth | 6 bookmarks

"No monster vibration, no snake universe hallucinations. Many tiny jeweled violet flowers along the path of a living brook that looked like Blake's illustration for a canal in grassy Eden: huge Pacific watery shore, Orlovsky dancing naked like Shiva long-haired before giant green waves, titanic cliffs that Wordsworth mentioned in his own Sublime, great yellow sun veiled with mist hanging over the planet's oceanic horizon. No harm."

Ginsberg, Allen | Drugs | 1 bookmarks

"Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured and far away. It is not important that he should mature as soon as an apple tree or an oak."

Thoreau, Henry David | Purpose | 10 bookmarks

"The best work never was and never will be done for money."

Ruskin, John | Work | 8 bookmarks

"Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come."

Hugo, Victor | Ideas | 7 bookmarks