Quotations

"Do you know that even when you look at a tree and say, `That is an oak tree', or `that is a banyan tree', the naming of the tree, which is botanical knowledge, has so conditioned your mind that the word comes between you and actually seeing the tree? To come in contact with the tree you have to put your hand on it and the word will not help you to touch it."

— Jiddu Krishnamurti, Indian-American philosopher, born 1895

"If God made anything better than women, I think he kept it for himself."

— Kris Kristofferson, American singer, born 1936

"The reality is that you will grieve forever. You will not ‘get over’ the loss of a loved one; you will learn to live with it. You will heal and you will rebuild yourself around the loss you have suffered. You will be whole again but you will never be the same. Nor should you be the same nor would you want to."

— Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, Swiss-American psychiatrist, born 1926

"Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms you would never see the true beauty of their carvings."

— Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, Swiss-American psychiatrist, born 1926

"I read. I order books from the States. I literally go into bookstores, close my eyes, and take things off the shelf. If I don't like the book after a bit, I don't finish it. But I like to be surprised."

— Stanley Kubrick, American director, born 1928

"The Latin etymology of the word "religion" means to repair or reconnect, and I’ve realized that it is through our shared unknowing that we find our greatest connection to one another, and to what is sacred."

— James Kullander, American Writer

"It is important to act as if bearing witness matters."

— Maxine Kumin, American poet, born 1925

"We are, each of us, our own prisoner. We are locked up in our own story."

— Maxine Kumin, American poet, born June 6, 1925

"The poem in the head is always perfect. Resistance begins when you try to convert it into language."

— Stanley Kunitz, American poet, born 1905

"Darling, do you remember the man you married? Touch me, remind me who I am."

— Stanley Kunitz, American poet, born 1905

"The unconscious creates, the ego edits."

— Stanley Kunitz, American poet, born 1905

"The universe is a continuous web. Touch it at any point and the whole web quivers."

— Stanley Kunitz, American poet, born 1905

"The poem comes in the form of a blessing, like rapture breaking on the mind."

— Stanley Kunitz, American poet, born 1905

"Old myths, old gods, old heroes have never died. They are only sleeping at the bottom of our mind, waiting for our call. We have need for them. They represent the wisdom of our race."

— Stanley Kunitz, American poet, born 1905