Shara

“Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Road

“There is a difficulty with only one person changing. People call that person a great saint or a great mystic or a great leader, and they say, 'Well, he's different from me - I could never do it.' What's wrong with most people is that they have this block - they feel they could never make a difference, and therefore, they never face the possibility, because it is too disturbing, too frightening.”
― David Bohm

“Painting is literature in colors. Literature is painting in language.”
― Pramoedya Ananta Toer, Bumi Manusia

“In this sense, literary translation, as a labour of changing words, and changing the orders of words, is always and from the outset wrong: its wrongness is a way of indirectly stressing and restressing the rightness of the original words in their right and original order.”
― Kate Briggs, This Little Art