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"I know Shakespeare said art is holding up a mirror to nature- but you're actually bending and refracting it through your interior dialogue ..."
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"Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all."
"And it seemed at last that there were two musics progressing at one time before the seat of IlAovatar, and they were utterly at variance. The one was deep and wide ad beautiful, but slow and blended with an immeasurable sorrow from which its beauty chiefly came."
"One should be a painter. As a writer, I feel the beauty, which is almost entirely colour, very subtle, very changeable, running over my pen, as if you poured a large jug of champagne over a hairpin."
"A picture is a voiceless poem, a poem is a vocal picture."
"The kind of poem I produced in those days was hardly anything more than a sign I made of being alive, of passing or having passed, or hoping to pass, through certain intense human emotions. It was a phenomenon of orientation rather than of art, thus comparable to stripes of paint on a roadside rock or to a pillared heap of stones marking a mountain trail. But then, in a sense, all poetry is positional: to try to express one's position in regard to the universe embraced by consciousness, is an immemorial urge. Tentacles, not wings, are Apollo's natural members. Vivian Bloodmark, a philosophical friend of mine, in later years, used to say that while the scientist sees everything that happens in one point of space, the poet feels everything that happens in one point of time."
"The discipline of creation, be it to paint, compose, write, is an effort towards wholeness."
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"True love is an irrevocable act - you can only give your heart away once - after that, you give as much as you have left ..."
"Before you, life was desolate - the past hardly worth remembering - and now, each moment a keepsake I can't throw away ..."
"You betrayed me, but after all those years I discover, my tears have wiped the slate clean..."
"I looked in the window, wanting to stay - it rained, yet I remained...because you were so lovely..."
"You say you don't mistrust me, yet you quote Chrysostom - Hell is paved with priests' skulls...."
"You have changed everything for me- you rearranged the furniture and now you've changed the view from my window!..."
"I hardly ever see your profile, but have I told you it's beautiful? - like the soft gentle lines of snow..."
"The fragrance of pine resin is frankincense poured out-a balm of stars and snow and moonlit nights."
"You want the sweetness of our beginning without the bitterness of our struggle - what are you asking - do you want light without shadow? ..."
"Sorrow binds us - I will always cherish you - my only disillusionment is unspoken words ..."
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