"To certain people there comes a day when they must say the great Yes or the great No." — Constantine P. Cavafy, Greek poet, born 1863
"Body, remember not only how much you were loved, not only the beds you lay on, but also those desires glowing openly in eyes that looked at you, trembling for you in voices." — Constantine P. Cavafy, Greek poet, born 1863
"You can never lose anything that really belongs to you, and you can't keep that which belongs to someone else." — Edgar Cayce, American psychic, born 1877
"Your work is not to drag the world kicking and screaming into a new awareness. Your job is to simply do your work. Sacredly. Secretly, and Silently. And those with 'eyes to see and ears to hear' will respond." — Edgar Cayce, American psychic, born 1877
"The poem is lonely. It is lonely and en route. Its author stays with it. Does this very fact not place the poem already here, at its inception, in the encounter, in the mystery of encounter?" — Paul Celan, Romanian poet, born 1920
"When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies? Perhaps to be too practical is madness. To surrender dreams — this may be madness. Too much sanity may be madness — and maddest of all: to see life as it is, and not as it should be!" — Miguel de Cervantes, Spanish playwright, born 1547
"A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience." — Miguel de Cervantes, Spanish playwright, born 1547
"Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be." — Miguel de Cervantes, Spanish playwright, born 1547
"Poetic knowledge is born in the great silence of scientific knowledge." — Aime Cesaire, French poet, born 1913
"It is no use painting the foot of the tree white, the strength of the bark cries out from beneath the paint." — Aime Cesaire, French poet, born 1913
"Light is a thing that cannot be reproduced, but must be represented by something else – by color." — Paul Cezanne, French painter, born 1839