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nothing…
I have nothing to say and
I am saying it and that
is poetry as I need it.
John Cage - lecture on nothing - 1959
Nothing is
But what is not
William Shakespeare - Macbeth - I/iii
There is nothing either
good or bad, but
thinking makes it so.
William Shakespeare - Hamlet - II/ii
Nothing is impossible to
a willing hart.
John Heywood - Proverbes. Part I. Chap. iv.
Lord of himself, though not of lands;
And having nothing, yet hath all.
Sir Henry Wotton - The Character of a Happy Life.
Philosophy is nothing
but discretion.John Selden - Table Talk. Philosophy.
Wise men say nothing in
dangerous times.
John Selden - Table Talk. Wisdom.
It is better to have a
little than nothing.
Publius Syrus - Maxim 484.
Man is the only one that knows nothing, that can learn
nothing without being taught. He can neither speak nor walk
nor eat, and in short he can do nothing at the
prompting of nature only, but weep.
Pliny the Elder - Natural History. Book vii. Sect. 4.
Is whispering nothing?
Is leaning cheek to cheek? is meeting noses?
Kissing with inside lip? stopping the career
Of laughing with a sigh?--a note infallible
Of breaking honesty--horsing foot on foot?
Skulking in corners? wishing clocks more swift?
Hours, minutes? noon, midnight? and all eyes
Blind with the pin and web but theirs, theirs only,
That would unseen be wicked? is this nothing?
Why, then the world and all that's in't is nothing;
The covering sky is nothing; Bohemia nothing;
My wife is nothing; nor nothing have these nothings,
If this be nothing.
Shakespeare - The Winter's Tale (Leontes 1.2.334-46)
Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to
add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
Antoine de Saint Exupery - L'Avion