Scott Sanders Professions : Novelist Born : October 26, 1945 Browse All Authors Top 6 quotes by Scott Sanders I'm never more aware of the limitations of language than when I try to describe beauty. Language can create its own loveliness, of course, but it cannot deliver to us the radiance we apprehend in the world, any more than a photograph can capture the stunning swiftness of a hawk or the withering power of a supernova... All that pictures or words can do is gesture beyond themselves toward the fleeting glory that stirs our hearts. So I keep gesturing. Scott Sanders fleeting heart trying We have a Bill of Rights, which protects each of us from a bullying society, but no Bill of Responsibilities, which would oblige us to answer to the needs of others. Scott Sanders bullying responsibility rights The only durable community is the one that embraces the whole planet, wild and tame . . . Scott Sanders embrace planets community The unexpected may annoy us, but may also wake us up. Scott Sanders annoying unexpected may Every thread you discover in the local web of life leads beyond your place to life elsewhere. Scott Sanders thread web-of-life elsewhere Water is the formless potential out of which creation emerged. It is the ocean of unconsciousness enveloping the islands of consciousness. Water bathes us at birth and again at death, and in between it washes away sin. It is by turns the elixir of life or the renewing rain or the devastating flood. Scott Sanders ocean rain islands Similar Authors Adam Johnson novelist Ivan Goncharov novelist Binnie Kirshenbaum novelist Bruce Jay Friedman novelist Buchi Emecheta novelist Bryce Courtenay novelist All Authors
