Stanley Kunitz

What makes the engine go? Desire, desire, desire.

Milan Kundera

The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.

Milan Kundera

Most people deceive themselves with a pair of faiths: they believe in eternal memory (of people, things, deeds, nations) and in redressibility (of deeds, mistakes, sins, wrongs). Both are false faiths. In reality the opposite is true: everything will be forgotten and nothing will be redressed.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

Jane Kenyon

There are things in this life that we must endure which are all but unendurable, and yet I find that there is a great goodness. Why, when there could have been nothing, is there something? This is a great mystery. How, when there could have been nothing, does it happen that there is love, kindness, beauty?

Kafka

A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us.

Pauline Kael

If art isn't pleasure, what is it—work?