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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."

"A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual."

"The effort of art is to keep what is interesting in existence, to recreate it in the eternal."
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"Most reporters who come to me get their stories directly from press releases. Very few do what one would consider to be their professional duty."

"It would make life much easier if I could have total faith and not question everything all the time, but I can't do it and I won't do it."

"When I create a false reality, I always try to create a plausible structure to help convince people."

"I learned more complex ways to manipulate the manipulators, to bring attention to issues about which I felt passionate."

"But I learned first-hand how the news media operates by watching how they interpreted, changed, and misrepresented my intentions."

"Any deviation is looked upon as a perversion, is feared, and is usually a target of hatred and prejudice."

"If I'm successful in fooling a wire service, I don't really have to do anything else to promote the story."
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