#mba

Conditioned to ecstasy, the poet is like a gorgeous unknown bird mired in the ashes of thought. If he succeeds in freeing himself, it is to make a sacrificial flight to the sun. His dreams of a regenerate world are but the reverberations of his own fevered pulse beats. He imagines the world will follow him, but in the blue he finds himself alone. Alone but surrounded by his creations; sustained, therefore, to meet the supreme sacrifice. The impossible has been achieved; the duologue of author with Author is consummated. And now forever through the ages the song expands, warming all hearts, penetrating all minds. At the periphery the world is dying away; at the center it glows like a live coal. In the great solar heart of the universe the golden birds are gathered in unison. There it is forever dawn, forever peace, harmony and communion. Man does not look to the sun in vain; he demands light and warmth not for the corpse which he will one day discard but for his inner being. His greatest desire is to burn with ecstasy, to commerge his little flame with the central fire of the universe. If he accords the angels wings so that they may come to him with messages of peace, harmony and radiance from worlds beyond, it is only to nourish his own dreams of flight, to sustain his own belief that he will one day reach beyond himself, and on wings of gold. One creation matches another; in essence they are all alike. The brotherhood of man consists not in thinking alike, nor in acting alike, but in aspiring to praise creation. The song of creation springs from the ruins of earthly endeavor. The outer man dies away in order to reveal the golden bird which is winging its way toward divinity. ↗

— Henry Miller

#henry-miller #age

Never is a man more proud than when he shuffles paper in front of an illiterate person. ↗

— Taona Dumisani Chiveneko

#mystrey #paranormal-romancesuspense #thriller #zimbabwe #thriller

Have you ever noticed how parents can go from the most wonderful people in the world to totally embarrassing in three seconds? ↗

— Rick Riordan

#family #parents #relationships #family

There is one thing that has disappeared, not just from the U.S. but from the entire world, is the idea of ever being embarrassed by anything. ↗

— Fran Lebowitz

#embarrassment #society #united-states #world #united-states

I mean, I haven't been around very long. I can't expect everyone to have seen 'The House Bunny'. Oh God. I am having such waves of internal embarrassment, which now I'm admitting on a tape recorder. This is so one of the things I should keep in my head. ↗

— Emma Stone

#am #around #been #bunny #embarrassment

When I realized I was having trouble reading, I was too embarrassed to ask for help. Some teachers believed in me, but I just wasn't focused on school - I was into the music and trying to please my dad. ↗

— Fantasia Barrino

#believed #dad #embarrassed #focused #having

I have been complimented many times and they always embarrass me; I always feel that they have not said enough. ↗

— Mark Twain

#been #complimented #embarrass #enough #feel

I'm neither embarrassed of who I am, where I come from, what I've experienced, I'm not ashamed of it. ↗

— Shania Twain

#ashamed #come #embarrassed #experienced #i

I can say now: all the combatants who participated in the fight for freedom in South America came to Algeria; it's from there that all those who fought left. We trained them, we arranged for the weapons to reach them, we created networks. ↗

— Ahmed Ben Bella

#america #arranged #came #combatants #created

We need to get serious about combating gang violence on Long Island, and the entire nation. ↗

— Tim Bishop

#combating #entire #entire nation #gang #gang violence