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Samuel Johnson

"The drama's laws the drama's patrons give. For we that live to please must please to live."

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"The drama's laws the drama's patrons give. For we that live to please must please to live."

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Amber Hurdle

"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."

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Amber Hurdle

"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."

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"The discipline of creation, be it to paint, compose, write, is an effort towards wholeness."

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"Let music ignite your vivid inner colors and bring you harmony inside and out."

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Amber Hurdle

"The essence of art is that its one case applies to thousands,' knew Schopenhauer."

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"Because the world has gone nutty and art always paints the spirit of its times."

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"If the artist reflects only his own culture, then his works will die with that culture. But if his works reflect the eternal and universal, they will revive."

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"With writing, we have second chances."

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Amber Hurdle

"The art of art the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters is simplicity: nothing is better than simplicity."

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"There is certainly no greater happiness than to be able to look back on a life usefully and virtuously employed to trace our own progress in existence by such tokens as excite neither shame nor sorrow."
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