Goenawan Mohamad quotes

Indonesia isn't the most beautiful country in the world. I don't think so. Italy is much lovelier - and France too. It's a very problematic country. And that's why you have to stay here for the rest of your life. Indonesia is a process. It's not a finished idea. It's a practice, and a trial and error.
-- Goenawan Mohamad

#Beautiful #Country #Thinking

History is a promise that is always broken in the end
-- Goenawan Mohamad

#Broken #Promise #Ends

I fear if I cannot think again, if my mind suddenly goes blank. It will be embarrassing.
-- Goenawan Mohamad

#Thinking #Mind #Embarrassing

What I like about theater is its team work. Theater is also all-time creativity.
-- Goenawan Mohamad

#Team #Creativity #Theater

Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them.

The most beautiful fate, the most wonderful good fortune that can happen to any human being, is to be paid for doing that which he passionately loves to do.

Sport is how poor kids from poor countries pass through the eye of the needle to riches and recognition.

I think in this country we're committed to developing plays, and many plays I've seen have been rewritten too much. The scenes are tight, the play ends at the right time, you know exactly what the scene is about, but it seems flat; you can almost see that too many hands have been on the play. The individual voice is gone.

The obedient in art are always the forgotten . . . The country is glorious but its beauties are unknown, and but waiting for a real live artist to splash them onto canvas . . . Chop your own path. Get off the car track.

Even if my country remains in war with yours. . .remember. . . i am not your enemy.

Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.

Here is Edward Bear, coming downstairs now, bump, bump, bump, on the back of his head, behind Christopher Robin. It is, as far as he knows, the only way of coming downstairs, but sometimes he feels that there really is another way, if only he could stop bumping for a moment and think of it. And then he feels that perhaps there isn't.

Well," said Pooh, "what I like best," and then he had to stop and think. Because although Eating Honey was a very good thing to do, there was a moment just before you began to eat it which was better than when you were, but he didn't know what it was called.

I don't think that when Zionism began there was a claim that we were losing - even in part - our capacity to contribute to other peoples.