"Sometimes the soul takes pictures of things it has wished for, but never seen." — Anne Sexton, American poet, born 1928
"I believe it is in our nature to explore, to reach out into the unknown. The only true failure would be not to explore at all." — Ernest Shackleton, British explorer, born 1874
"We had seen God in His splendors, heard the text that Nature renders. We had reached the naked soul of man." — Ernest Shackleton, British explorer, born 1874
"I seemed to vow to myself that some day I would go to the region of ice and snow and go on and on till I came to one of the poles of the earth, the end of the axis upon which this great round ball turns." — Ernest Shackleton, British explorer, born 1874
"I love chaos. It's the poetic element in a dull and ordered world." — Ben Shahn, Lithuanian-American photographer, born 1898
"Art almost always has its ingredient of impudence, its flouting of established authority, so that it may substitute its own authority and its own enlightenment." — Ben Shahn, Lithuanian-American photographer, born 1898
"God has given you one face, and you make yourself another." — William Shakespeare, English playwright, baptized 1564
"With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come." — William Shakespeare, English playwright, baptized 1564
"Give me my robe, put on my crown; I have Immortal longings in me." —William Shakespeare, English playwright, baptized 1564
"Teach not thy lip such scorn, for it was made for kissing, lady, not for such contempt." — William Shakespeare, English playwright, baptized 1564
"And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything." — William Shakespeare, English playwright, baptized 1564