"Before he goes into the water, a diver cannot know what he will bring back." — Max Ernst, German painter, born 1891
"I'm not a serious photographer like many of my contemporaries. That is to say, I am serious about not being serious." — Elliott Erwitt, French-American photographer, born 1928
"What I give form to in daylight is only one per cent of what I have seen in darkness." — M. C. Escher, Dutch illustrator, born 1898
"Are you really sure that a floor can't also be a ceiling?" — M. C. Escher, Dutch illustrator, born 1898
"You're bored? That's because you keep your senses awake and your soul asleep." — Josemaria Escriva, Spanish priest, born 1902
"Either we learn to find the Lord in the ordinary everyday life or else we shall never find him." — Josemaria Escriva, Spanish priest, born 1902
"Advice to Young Poets: Never pretend to be a unicorn by sticking a plunger on your head." — Martin Espada, American Latino poet, born 1957
"We know we cannot plant seeds with closed fists. To sow, we must open our hands." — Adolfo Esquivel, Argentinian activist, born 1931
"Never interrupt a conversation. Don't speak when a poem is speaking to you." — Jill Alexander Essbaum, American poet, born 1971
"I hope you will go out and let stories happen to you, and that you will work them, water them with your blood and tears and you laughter till they bloom, till you yourself burst into bloom." — Clarissa Pinkola Estes, American psychoanalyst, born 1945
"Gay people are born everyday. You will never legislate that away." — Melissa Etheridge, American singer, born 1961
"There is no fear when you choose love. The more you choose love, the more love is in your life. It gets easier and easier." — Melissa Etheridge, American singer, born 1961
"The photographer is a joyous sensualist, for the simple reason that the eye traffics in feelings, not in thoughts." — Walker Evans, American photographer, born 1903