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Notes & Quotes

 

Quotes:

for the New Semester

 

 

On Love... for Valentine's Day (February 14):

“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,
And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind."
William Shakespeare, Midsummer Night's Dream, 1595.

"Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired."
Robert Frost, poet, in conversation.

"Love is not just looking at each other, it's looking in the same direction."
Antoine de St.-Exupery, Wind, Sand, and Stars, 1939.

By Women, for Women's History Month (March):

"I have no idea of submitting tamely to injustice inflicted either on me or on the slave. I will oppose it with all the moral powers with which I am endowed. I am no advocate of passivity."
Lucretia Mott, American activist (1793-1880).

"I believe that it is as much a right and duty for women to do something with their lives as for men and we are not going to be satisfied with such frivolous parts as you give us."
Louisa May Alcott, American author (1832-1888).

"I do not believe that women are better than men. We have not wrecked railroads, not corrupted legislature, nor done many unholy things that men have done; but then we must remember that we have not had the chance."
Jane Addams, American social reformer (1860-1935).

"Women have been trained to speak softly and carry a lipstick. Those days are over."
"We are coming down from the pedestal and up from the laundry room. We want an equal share in government and we mean to get it."
Bella Abzug, the first Jewish Congresswoman (1920-1998).

National Poetry Month (April):

"Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive and wisely effective way of saying things."
Matthew Arnold, Essays in Criticism, 1865.

"If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that it is poetry. If I feel physically as if the top of my jead were taken off, I know that is poetry."
Emily Dickinson, in M. Bianchi's Life, 1924.

"Poetry is a rich, full-bodied whistle, cracked ice crunching in pails, the night that numbs the leaf, the duel of two nightengales, the sweet pea that has run wild, Creation's tears in shoulder blades."
Wallace Stevens, quoted in Life, June 13, 1960.