Sedulia's Quotations

Joseph Conrad on hope

To be hopeful in an artistic sense it is not necessary to think that the world is good. It is enough to believe that there is no impossibility of its being made so.

    --Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) in "Books" (1905)

Quetzalcoatl: Learn to think for a long time how to change the world

Learn to think for a long time how to change the world.

       --Quetzalcoatl, the Aztec god. Quoted by Mary Pipher (1947-), Writing to Change the World  (2006)

Mary Pipher: If we wait for the saints, it will be too late

If we wait for the saints to change the world, it will be too late.

   --Mary Pipher (1947- ), Writing to Change the World (2006)

Czelaw Milosz: As late as the approach of my ninetieth year, I felt a door opening

Not soon, as late as the approach of my ninetieth year,
I felt a door opening in me and I entered
the clarity of early morning.

        --Czeslaw Milosz (1911-2004), "Late Ripeness" in Second Space: New Poems (2005)