Quotes from Vanna Bonta

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.

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

Life is a canvas of many strokes where shades from different palettes meet into a picture so concrete that some forget it is their own, so become framed themselves.

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.

Love is a quality, not a quantity.

Love is the eternal first breath.

Money is only a human invention.

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.

My body is an avatar.

My mother used poetry and the arts as a thermometer—if I cried, it meant my heart had not grown cold, my sensibility was alive and well.

My primary motivation for writing is to communicate my perceptions and insights into the human condition, in a way that may provide understanding, comfort, and company to others.

Our lives are fictions, a work we leave behind, signed.

Our true enemies are: ignorance and limitation.

Patience is being friends with Time.

People who worship only themselves get a slick, polished look -- like monuments. Too bad they had to go so soon.

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

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

Poetry is our heart, our spirit, our soul. Call it whatever; without it, everything else is nothing but hardware.

Poetry isn't an activity, it's a way life is lived.

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

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

Pythagoras was the first person to call the universe Cosmos, describing it a 'kosmos.' The Greek word means 'an equal presence of order and beauty.

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

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