The primary dues a writer or any artist pays is to remain sentient, and to forfeit the illusionary luxury of such anesthetics as avoidance, numbness, and denials. Vanna Bonta More Quotes by Vanna Bonta More Quotes From Vanna Bonta If warring is human, then why not declare a new kind of war: A waged War of education, love and friendship to win universal human well-being? I propose a brutal conflict against poverty, disease, ignorance, limitations. Imagine the troops, the regimens, the commanders, the soldiers, the discoveries, the heroes, the life! humanity and our planet, victors. Vanna Bonta My mother used poetry and the arts as a thermometer—if I cried, it meant my heart had not grown cold, my sensibility was alive and well. Vanna Bonta Pythagoras was the first person to call the universe Cosmos, describing it a 'kosmos.' The Greek word means 'an equal presence of order and beauty. Vanna Bonta Sometimes it's the girl who wouldn't give a kiss that the boys call a slut. Vanna Bonta The only truth slander reveals is about the coward implementing it. Vanna Bonta There is direct correlation between a society lacking in artistic vision to lack of social conscience, i.e., crime, poverty, and senseless, violent atrocities, materialism. Vanna Bonta What we look squarely in the eye rarely bites us in the butt. Vanna Bonta The song 'What Goes Up' was inspired as I was playing the piano and reminiscing about the Spaceship One launches I witnessed in the Mojave desert. It is an awesome thing to comprehend the magnitude of what a human being dreams and imagines can be realized. Vanna Bonta human-being dreams desert song Space is as infinite as we can imagine, and expanding this perspective is what adjusts humankind focus on conquering our true enemies, the formidable foes: ignorance and limitation. Vanna Bonta perspective focus space ignorance You have to know you can first. How comes later. Vanna Bonta first how know you Thought makes reality. Vanna Bonta makes thought reality