Quote of the Day (Poet Jack Gilbert, on How ‘We Must Risk Delight’)

 

“We must risk delight. We can do without pleasure,
but not delight. Not enjoyment. We must have
the stubbornness to accept our gladness in the ruthless
furnace of this world. To make injustice the only
measure of our attention is to praise the Devil.
If the locomotive of the Lord runs us down,
we should give thanks that the end had magnitude.
We must admit there will be music despite everything.” —American poet Jack Gilbert (1925-2012), “A Brief for The Defense,” in Refusing Heaven (2005)

Quote of the Day (Clint Eastwood, With Cranky But Endearing Rules for Living)

“Never put anything in writing. If you’re going to do dumb statements, just say sorry for it and walk on. Don’t do real pussy—excuse my language—apologies, where you go like you never meant to do it. You meant to do it! Take your lumps and walk away.” —Clint Eastwood quoted in “Party Lines,” New York Magazine, Jan. 12-25, 2013

(Photo of  Clint Eastwood at the Letters from Iwo Jima screening, Berlinale 2007, by Martin Kraft)

Quote of the Day (Nelson Mandela, on the ‘Greatest Glory in Living’)

“The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.”-- Nelson Mandela, quoted in Anthony Sampson, Mandela: The Authorized Biography (2000)

(The image accompanying this post was taken of Mandela at Independence Hall in Philadelphia on July 4, 1993.)