#latin

Omnia Mutantur, Nihil Interit. 'Everything changes, but nothing is truly lost. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#the-sandman #the-wake #change

He cared for languages dead long enough that they wouldn’t change on him. ↗

— Maggie Stiefvater

#change

If suffering like hers had any use, she reasoned, it was not to the sufferer. The only way that an individual's pain gained meaning was through its communication to others. ↗

— Diane Wood Middlebrook

#helping-others #mental-illness #relating #self-disclosure #suffering

I'm always looking for meaningful one-night stands ↗

— Dudley Moore

#relating #relationships #dating

Your friends, and your associates, and the people around you, and the environment that you live in, and the speakers around you - the speakers around you - and the communicators around you, are the poetry makers. If your mother tells you stories, she is a poetry maker. If your father says stories, he is a poetry maker. If your grandma tells you stories, she is a poetry maker. And that’s who forms our poetics. ↗

— Juan Felipe Herrera

#poetry #communication

i think you will be tired of telling me & my dreams to go to hell ↗

— E.E. Cummings

#deflating #dreams #go-to-hell #dreams

Science is only a Latin word for knowledge ↗

— Carl Sagan

#knowledge #latin #learn #science #truth

Foisting an identity on people rather than allowing them the freedom and space to create their own is shady. ↗

— Raquel Cepeda

#freedom-of-thought #hispanic #identity #immigrant-experience #latino-americans

Pactum serva" - "Keep the faith ↗

— Horace

#latin #philosophy #faith

Even the most political poem is an act of faith. ↗

— Martin Espada

#poetry #faith