Vanna Bonta Quotes

You never read about the real pain. It lives where no word can travel.

The true poem rests between the words.

There is only now. And look! How rich we are in it.

The category "Women Poets" is bizarre and irrelevant. It's a subcategory of Poets, but there is not a "Men Poets" category.

To paraphrase the great poet Dante, the heavens swirl above us and our eyes are still cast to the ground.

There is no hospitality like understanding.

Little did the artist know, who neglected his appearance in favor of his work, that the years would produce a breed that spent hours meticulously acquiring a neglected look to appear like an artist.

Anyone contemplating world war is certifiably insane, no matter how calm they seem.

I'm not an intellectual, I'm just a writer.

How enlightened is wearing God like some do Versace?

Where you see valid achievements or virtue being attacked, it's by someone viewing them as a mirror of their own inadequacy instead of an inspiring beacon for excellence.

We've been there on World Wars, it's time for World Party I.

The impact of space activities
is nothing less than the galvanizing
of hope and imagination for human life continuum
into a future of infinite possibility.

Atheism is a religion itself complete with fanatics and bigots.

How can I follow my heart when it's waiting around for the rest of me to make the decision?

Which came first - the observer or the particle?

Genuine art and business are the ultimate partnership toward catalyzing social evolution and well-being.

Love is the eternal first breath.

You have to know you can first. How comes later.

Any leader who doesn't support the heart of evolving humanity is not a leader worthy of being followed.

Any literature, when it arrives at being good literature, transcends genre.

There are abundantly more English professors in the world than there are authors.

Poetry absolves spirituality from the dividedness of religions and provides us with a sanctuary that excludes no one.

Everything solid was first an idea.

To a friend, achievement is good news, to an enemy, it's bragging.

The height of mediocrity is still low.

Looking up and out, how can we not respect this ever-vigilant cognizance that distinguishes us: the capability to envision, to dream, and to invent? the ability to ponder ourselves? and be aware of our existence on the outer arm of a spiral galaxy in an immeasurable ocean of stars? Cognizance is our crest.

The stars are not the limit.

It is an awesome thing to comprehend the magnitude of the fact that what a human being dreams and imagines can be realized. The power of that truth needs to be directed toward our creation of a future that is worthy of true human value and the world civilization.

I am in prayer. I am one hand, this Universe the other.

Poverty and War have no excuse.

Sex in space is not just a good idea, it's survival.

Do it right, regret nothing.

The illusion is we are only physical.

Mediocrity inspires neither great love nor hate.

Thought makes reality.

Any time a body goes outside the environmental conditions for which it developed it has to acclimate.

It's vital as we postulate and work toward exploration and human settlement beyond Earth. I like to think of the possibilities of sustaining humanity's continuum, with preserved recorded history way beyond the life of our Sun.

Events, time, forms, all propel the inner plot within each of us.

My body is the fruit of spirits' play.

Words are contact with other beings. I see a word that says something I've noticed, seen, felt, obserevd, and I capture it; "I need that word!"

Essentially Flight is just an adventure of multiple realities.

Purity of heart is blooming the same colors in the middle of the wilderness when no one sees you.

We can have a World War, I see absolutely no reason why we shouldn't have a World Party.

The body knows no pain, not like the soul. At least a nerve has limits, a body part a name. But the soul ... the soul ... There is no bandage, even crying is in vain.

Poetry is a subset of a Cosmos, which in itself, is a poem.

Language achieves soul only when it's applied as a tool, used by those who imbue it with what they have had the courage and honesty to perceive and feel.

Anger is a wound gone mad.

I became a total yes. We don't even have names anymore.

I consider myself more exportant than important.

Sometime is that appointment, the final one to meet. Let's color all with love, for Time is naught but fleet.

Leadership is not about being important, it's about serving something important.

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.

Popularity is not an indication of quality.

When we love there is no reason why.

Success makes enemies of those who would have never been true friends.

She listened to him all night and he found her fascinating.

We call interconnected order beautiful. When interrupted, we call it chaos.

Fear plants the whisper to beware but doesn't look to see who's there.

Because I had goodwill for all, I thought all were my friends, and then I learned of treachery, that some preferred my end. A glorious day, the one I learned the meaning of the word. It's good to know my enemies, though their reasons are absurd.

Your kisses are thieves which leave me wanting nothing.

Gifts have ribbons, not strings.

The news is disease in disguise pretending to be information.

The great thing about knowing you're wrong is the moment you realize it, you're right.

Apart from Love, which is not a human emotion, of all the rest my last words would best read: It's all for the experience.

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.

I'm in love with the whole world.

If a dishonest creep wants to tap dance, give them the spotlight and a mirror.

Teaching English and teaching Writing are two separate things.

On Earth, much of the wrenching discomfort of emesis, apart from the sensation of nausea itself, is from the coordination of many muscles it takes to counter gravity.

Ridicule is a public confession of fear.

Hate: return to sender; address unknown.

You are not going to find yourself anywhere except right where you are.

A heart needs only its own voice to do what is right.

Love is not blind. Love sees what is most true

Pythagorean thought was dominated by mathematics, but it was also profoundly mystical.

Remembrance of our kiss brings not your lips nor mine to mind. The flesh can only envy consumption so divine.

Is it a form of social play that underneath the words people say, there is a different conversation going on?

The greatest justice in life is to be who one is.

Some animals on Earth regurgitate as opposed to vomit, i.e., stomach contents flow up into the esophagus without any forceful abdominal contractions. What I experienced in zero gravity was similar to this, expulsion without the heaves.

The realm of quanta is how I have intrinsically approached and viewed reality since I was born.

I didn't have a Barbie doll, so I played with eternity.

The only sins are violations of Love.

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.

Human forms are perpetuated through sex, and sex also perpetuates human consciousness.

A poet's first contract is with truth.

Quantum fiction is any story that witnesses life and the human experience on a subatomic level.

Money is only a human invention. I get paid for my work, it's a system of trade, but it's not my purpose and reason for living.

Unfortunately, in our society, power means the ability to dominate and oppress.

It's weird how people who are the least close to me or who've never even met me purport to be experts on the real me; and then, sadly, there are those who could be in touch with me but prefer to gossip with strangers about me instead.

Poets can't worry about popularity since loving life and humanity involves saying what some people don't want to hear.

To the degree it is efficient, a spaceship is elegant and beautiful.

A cure for War? Furiously spending the same daily amount of money toward making friends. Being an indispensable source of food, shelter, peace, and cultural support dedicatedly spending 9 billion dollars a month on helping people would be a formidable enemy of evil.

When we love, we are courageous; and courage has nothing to do with being fearless, it's about being willing to experience fear, even dread, to do what we must, without guarantee of outcome.

It is interesting to note that poetry, a literary device whose very construct involves the use of words, is itself the word of choice by persons grasping to describe something so beautiful it is marvelously ineffable.

Self worship is different from self love.