Consolation Quote by Norman Douglas

“The poet discovers that what men value as substances have a higher value as symbols; that Nature is the immense shadow of man. A…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“At any time, and under any circumstances of human interest, is it not strange to see how little real hold the objects of the…

— Wilkie Collins

Each of us as poets, as decent suffering human beings, has to find a way to run our lives that is compassionate toward one…

— Sam Hamill

“[We] all need more than anything else to know human nature, to know the needs of the human soul; and they will find this…

— Theodore Roosevelt

“My stupidity gave its blessing to succouring nature, on her knees before God. What I am (my drunken laughter and happiness) is nonetheless at…

— Georges Bataille

“Man is naturally humble, naturally grateful, naturally guilty, naturally transcended, naturally a sufferer; he is small, pitiful, weak, a passive taker who tucks himself…

— Ernest Becker

“O Life, How oft we throw it off and think, — 'Enough, Enough of life in so much! — here's a cause For rupture;…

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

“The greatest poet does not moralize or make applications of morals... he knows the soul. The soul has that measureless pride which consists in…

— Walt Whitman

“The marvel of being human only reveals itself when we do something for another without personal gain, when we forgive, and when we give…

— Joan Marques

“Nature blessed every person with the innate capacity to express wonder and awe for the eternal world and act with a kind and unstinting…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

The fine gifts of temperament and imagination which are essential to the production of true poetry are often accompanied by morbid sensibility. The soul…

— Myrtle Reed

“[F]or several thousand years we have been obsessed with a false humility—on the one hand, putting ourselves down as mere creatures" who came into…

— Alan W. Watts