Great poetry needs no interpreter other than a responsive heart.
Weitere Zitate von Helen Keller
Zum Autor"When one door of happiness closes another opens but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us."
"[Tolerance] is the greatest gift of the mind it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle."
"What a blind person needs is not a teacher but another self."
"Science may have found a cure for most evils: but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all - the apathy of human beings."
"I have an unshakable belief that mankind’s higher nature is on the whole still dormant. The greatest souls reveal excellencies of mind and heart which their lesser fellows possess-hidden, it is true, but there all the same."
"Discouraged not by difficulties without or the anguish of ages within the heart listens to a secret voice that whispers: 'Be not dismayed in the future lies the Promised Land.'."