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"The effort of art is to keep what is interesting in existence, to recreate it in the eternal."
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"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."
"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."
"Let music ignite your vivid inner colors and bring you harmony inside and out."
"The essence of art is that its one case applies to thousands,' knew Schopenhauer."
"With writing, we have second chances."
"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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"The mind of the Renaissance was not a pilgrim mind, but a sedentary city mind, like that of the ancients."
"Each religion, by the help of more or less myth, which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny."
"The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity."
"To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring."
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