Quotations For Inspiration
This area will hold quotations and snippets of prose and verse for inspiration...to nudge the blocked writer's mind along. Submissions always welcome.
To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung
and possibly be broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your
heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little
luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your
selfishness. But in that casket--safe, dark, motionless, airless--it will change. It will not
be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. The alternative to
tragedy, or at least to the risk of tragedy, is damnation.
C. S. Lewis
Behold, from the land of the farther suns
I returned.
And I was in a reptile-swarming place
Peopled, otherwise, with grimaces
Shrouded above in black impenetrableness.
I shrank, loathing, sick with it.
And I said to him
"What is this?"
He made answer slowly
"Spirit, this is a world; this was your home." (Stephen Crane)
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