We need a renaissance of wonder. We need to renew, in our hearts and in our souls, the deathless dream, the eternal poetry, the perennial sense that life is miracle and magic.

Quote by E Merrill Root

Topics: Life Quotes, Poetry Quotes, Wonder Quotes

There is nothing like a dream to create the future.

There is nothing like a dream to create the future.

Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but...

Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but...

Life is an error-making and an error-correcting process, and nature in marking man's papers will...

Life is an error-making and an error-correcting process, and nature in marking man's papers will...

Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.

Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.

I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets.

I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets.

Life is the greatest bargain - we get it for nothing.

Life is the greatest bargain - we get it for nothing.

If you rest, you rust.

If you rest, you rust.

For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core...

For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core...

Life consists not in holding good cards, but in playing those you hold well.

Life consists not in holding good cards, but in playing those you hold well.

He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. Is...

He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. Is...

Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses...

Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses...

Homie you got it backwards, your dipping your soup inside your crackers.

Homie you got it backwards, your dipping your soup inside your crackers.

We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospection.

We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospection.

In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words, and...

In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words, and...

The only guide to man is his conscience; the only shield to his memory is...

The only guide to man is his conscience; the only shield to his memory is...

He who lives by fighting with an enemy has an interest in the preservation of...

He who lives by fighting with an enemy has an interest in the preservation of...

The object in life is not to be on the side of the majority, but...

The object in life is not to be on the side of the majority, but...

The question shouldn't be is there life after death but is there life before death...

The question shouldn't be is there life after death but is there life before death...

Religion is no more possible without prayer than poetry without language, or music without atmosphere

Religion is no more possible without prayer than poetry without language, or music without atmosphere

The poets did well to conjoin music and medicine, because the office of medicine is...

The poets did well to conjoin music and medicine, because the office of medicine is...

Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What...

Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What...