„p>One afternoon, which is ever present in my recollection, I was enjoying a walk with my friend in the city park and reciting poetry. At that age I knew entire books by heart, word for word. One of these was Goethe’s Faust. The sun was just setting and reminded me of a glorious passage:
— Nikola Tesla

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„One afternoon, which is ever present in my recollection, I was enjoying a walk with my friend in the city park and reciting poetry. At that age I knew entire books by heart, word for word. One of these was Goethe's Faust. The sun was just setting and reminded me of a glorious passage:Sie rückt und weicht, der Tag ist überlebt,Dort eilt sie hin und fördert neues Leben.O! daß kein Flügel mich vom Boden hebt,Ihr nach und immer nach zu streben!Ein schöner Traum, indessen sie entweicht.Ach! zu des Geistes Flügeln wird so leichtKein körperlicher Flügel sich gesellen![The glow retreats, done is the day of toil;It yonder hastes, new fields of life exploring;Ah, that no wing can lift me from the soilUpon its track to follow, follow soaring!A glorious dream! though now the glories fade.Alas! the wings that lift the mind no aidOf wings to lift the body can bequeath me.(tr. Bayard Taylor)As I uttered these inspiring words the idea came like a flash of lightning and in an instant the truth was revealed. I drew with a stick on the sand the diagram shown six years later in my address before the American Institute of Electrical Engineers, and my companion understood them perfectly. The images I saw were wonderfully sharp and clear and had the solidity of metal and stone, so much so that I told him, "See my motor here; watch me reverse it."“
— Nikola Tesla
„Refugees have done more for my heart and my spirit than I can ever express in words. “
— Angelina Jolie
„p>Heart, we will forget him!You and I, to-night!You may forget the warmth he gave,I will forget the light.When you have done, pray tell me,That I my thoughts may dim;Haste! lest while you’re lagging,I may remember him!
— Emily Dickinson
„p>It tossed and tossed,—A little brig I knew,—O’ertook by blast,It spun and spun,And groped delirious, for morn.It slipped and slipped,As one that drunken stepped;Its white foot tripped,Then dropped from sight.Ah, brig, good-nightTo crew and you;The ocean’s heart too smooth, too blue,To break for you.
— Emily Dickinson
„For this companion volume to A New Earth, I selected passages from the original book that felt particularly suitable for inspirational or meditative reading. For this reason I do not recommend that you read this book straight through from cover to cover. It would be far more beneficial to read, at the most, one chapter at a time, stopping at and perhaps rereading whatever passages elicit an inner response. Then let the words sink in and sense the truth to which they point, which is, of course, already within you. It can also be helpful to open the book at random occasionally, read one page or just one passage and let the words point the way to that dimension deep within that is beyond words, beyond thought. The truth to which the words point, the timeless dimension of consciousness, cannot be arrived at through discursive thought and conceptual understanding.“
— Eckhart Tolle
„If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.“
— Emily Dickinson