Rift Quotations

Love should be our walk and our talk.

We loved one another, man. I mean all those stories about the rift ... there was no question of a rift between Charlie Parker and me.

It is the little rift within the lute That by and by will make the music mute, And ever widening slowly silence all.

The confrontation between America and Europe reveals not so much a rapprochement as a distortion, an unbridgeable rift. There isn't just a gap between us, but a whole chasm of modernity.

In our family, we don't have rifts. We have a jolly good row and then it's all over. And I've only twice ever had a row with my sister.

...since social relationships are always ambiguous, since my thought is only a unit, since my thoughts create rifts as much as they unite, since my words establish contacts by being spoken and create isolation by remaining unspoken, since an immense moat separates the subjective certitude that I have for myself from the objective reality that I represent to others, since I never stop finding myself guilty even though I feel I am innocent....

Load every rift with ore.

You might curb your magnanimity, and be more of an artist, and load every rift of your subject with ore.

Know the joy of life by piling good deed on good deed until no rift or cranny appears between them.