Rebecca Solnit Quotes About Heart

Quotes about: Heart

• A book is a heart that only beats in the chest of another.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Book, Heart, Beats

  Rebecca Solnit (2013). “The Faraway Nearby”, p.42, Granta Books

• The object we call a book is not the real book, but its potential, like a musical score or seed. It exists fully only in the act of being read; and its real home is inside the head of the reader, where the symphony resounds, the seed germinates. A book is a heart that only beats in the chest of another.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Real, Book, Home

  "The Faraway Nearby". Book by Rebecca Solnit, June 2013.

• To be hopeful means to be uncertain about the future, to be tender toward possibilities, to be dedicated to change all the way down to the bottom of your heart.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Heart, Mean, Hopeful

  "We could be heroes: an election-year letter" by Rebecca Solnit, www.theguardian.com. October 15, 2012.

• Walking itself is the intentional act closest to the unwilled rhythms of the body, to breathing and the beating of the heart. It strikes a delicate balance between working and idling, being and doing. It is a bodily labor that produces nothing but thoughts, experiences, arrivals.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Heart, Breathing, Balance

  Rebecca Solnit (2001). “Wanderlust: A History of Walking”, p.11, Penguin

• A contrarian at heart, I am often guided by what I disagree with and don't want.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Heart, Want, Disagree

  Source: therumpus.net

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