Sherwood Anderson Quotes

Something seemed to open out. There was a little inner world created, always, every day, being re-created, and in it there was a kind of new security.

There was something, a driving destructive thing in life, in all relationships between people.

the desire to say words overcame him and he said words without meaning, rolling them over on his tongue and saying them because they were brave words, full of meaning. 'death,' he muttered, 'night, the sea, fear, loveliness.

People who have few possessions cling tightly to those they have.

Song for Lonely Roads

Now let us understand each other, love,
Long time ago I crept off home,
To my own gods I went.

The tale is old,
It has been told
By many men in many lands.
The lands belong to those who tell.
Now surely that is clear.

After the plow had westward swept,
The gods bestowed the corn to stand.
Long, long it stood,
Strong, strong it grew,
To make a forest for new song.

Deep in the corn the bargain hard
Youth with the gods drove home.
The gods remember,
Youth forgets.
Doubt not the soul of song that waits.

The singer dies,
The singer lives,
The gods wait in the corn,
The soul of song is in the land.
Lift up your lips to that.

Ansía con todo su corazón acercarse a algún otro ser humano, tocar a alguien con las manos, que alguien le toque. Si prefiere que ese otro sea una mujer, es porque piensa que una mujer será amable y le comprenderá. Busca, ante todo, comprensión

Most philosophers must have been raised on chicken farms. One hopes for so much from a chicken and is so dreadfully disillusioned.

El amor es como un viento que agita la hierba debajo de los árboles en una noche oscura (…). No debe usted tratar de convertirlo en algo definido.

Never did he succeed in getting what he wanted out of life and he did not know what he wanted.

"Doctor Parcival began to plead with George Willard. "You must pay attention to me," he urged. "If something happens perhaps you will be able to write the book that I may never get written. The idea is very simple, so simple that if you are not careful you will forget it. It is this - that everyone in the world is Christ and they are all crucified. That's what I want to say. Don't you forget that. Whatever happens, don't you date let yourself forget.

the important thing to learn is to know what people think, not what they say

Civilization is perhaps nothing but a process of finding out what you cannot have.

But people who believe in themselves make others believe.

Artık çok da bir işe yaramayan yaşlı bedeniyle hareketsizce uzanıyordu ama içinde tamamen genç olan bir şey vardı. Hamile bir kadınla arasındaki tek fark, karnında bir bebek değil, bir genç taşıyor olmasıydı.

Eğer başıma bir şey gelirse, benim yazamadığım kitabı sen yazarsın belki. Fikir çok basit, o kadar basit ki, dikkat etmezsen unutabilirsin. Fikir şu -dünyadaki herkes İsa'nın ta kendisi ve bütün hepsi de çarmıhlara gerili. Anlatmak istediğim bu. Sakın unutma. Ne olursa olsun, bunu sakın unutayım deme.