Amado V. Hernandez quotes

“The mind of a poet often performs miracles-a few coarse-grained words, apprehended become bullets and roses.”
-- Amado V. Hernandez

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“With rue my heart is laden For golden friends I had, For many a rose-lipped maiden And many a lightfoot lad.”

Source : Shropshire Lad (1896) no. 54

“Courage is not defined by those who fought and did not fall, but by those who fought, fell and rose again.”

“Let opening roses knotted oaks adorn, And liquid amber drop from every thorn.”

“So, timely you came, and well you chose, You came when most needed, my winter rose. From the snow I pluck you, and fondly press Your leaves 'twixt the leaves of my leaflessness.”

Source : Alfred Austin, “My Winter Rose”

“It would be a miracle, for example, if I dropped a stone and it rose upwards. But is it no miracle that it falls to the ground?”

“Love lies bleeding in the bed whereover Roses lean with smiling mouths or pleading: Earth lies laughing where the sun's dart clove her: Love lies bleeding.”

“As barbaric is we are, it's a miracle we haven't blown ourselves off the face of the earth so far.”

Source : Interview with Christopher Kompanek, www.avclub.com. March 23, 2012.

“Do you believe in miracles?”

Source : Television broadcast of Olympic hockey game, 24 Feb. 1980

“You cannot have a good character today and at the same time have a small mind and a little heart. You cannot have a good character today and be merely a petty reformer.”

“Middle age has been defined as what happens when a person's broad mind and narrow waist change places.”