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."
"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."
"Cut off as I am, it is inevitable that I should sometimes feel like a shadow walking in a shadowy world. When this happens I ask to be taken to New York City. Always I return home weary but I have the comforting certainty that mankind is real flesh and I myself am not a dream."
"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."
"What a blind person needs is not a teacher but another self."
"Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other's welfare social justice can never be attained."