"Music is sonorous air."

-- Ferruccio Busoni

#Air Quotes #Music Is Quotes

“The most surprising thing for my mother and father was when I was actually earning more money than them by the time I was about 18. They thought I was going to be the ne'er do well, who they'd have to keep worrying about.”
“If flowers want to grow right out of concrete sidewalk cracks I'm going to bend down and smell them.”

Source : "Poems, 1934-1969".
“Think often on God, by day, by night, in your business and even in your diversions. He is always near you and with you; leave him not alone.”
“The period of Catholic ascendancy was on the whole one of the most deplorable in the history of the human mind. . . . The spirit that shrinks from enquiry as sinful and deems a state of doubt a state of guilt, is the most enduring disease that can afflict the mind of man. Not till the education of Europe passed from the monasteries to the universities, not till Mohammedan science, and classical free thought, and industrial independence broke the sceptre of the Church, did the intellectual revival of Europe begin.”
“Against Bradley, every time I'm trying to dunk, dunk, dunk.”
“I can't convince myself that it does much good to try to challenge the everyday political delusions and dementias of Americans at large. Their contained and confined mentalities by far prefer the petty and parochial prisons of the kind of sense they have been trained and rewarded for making out of their lives (and are punished for deviating from them). What it costs them ultimately to be such slaves and infants and ideological zombies is a thought too monstrous and rending and spiky for them even to want to glance at.”
“It takes a long time to get to be a diva. I mean, you gotta work at it.”
“The more that you follow me, the more I get lost”

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