"Ye living soldiers of the mighty war, Once more from roaring cannon and the drums And bugles blown at morn, the summons comes; Forget the halting limb, each wound and scar: Once more your Captain calls to you; Come to his last review!"

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Source : Richard Watson Gilder (1900). “Five Books of Song”

Richard Watson Gilder

#War Quotes #Soldier Quotes #Lasts Quotes

“The widow cries out at the door, The light of my mind has gone out, O my mother, with his death. So cry out, O soul brides of the Husband Lord, and dwell on the Glorious Praises of the True Lord.”
“There is a good deal of art that in some traditions of conceptual work are anti-affect, in fact a very large chunk of mainstream art after 1950 took against affect art altogether because they said, "No, we hate affect art because this is how we get manipulated by totalitarianism and therefore artists shouldn't play that game." And a lot of artists agreed to play that game, which I personally believe is to the loss of art.”

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“My plan is to have a theatre in some small town or something and I'll be manager. Ill be the crazy old movie guy.”
“I have seen no men in life loving their profession so much as painters, except, perhaps, actors, who, when not engaged themselves, always go to the play.”
“We make pictures. At the end of the day, we create something potentially significant that did not exist at the beginning of the day. We go forward, despite the uncertainty. Because this is an act of love and passion, which defies reason and prudence.”
“If Jeffrey Dahmer doesn't meet the legal test of insanity, God help the one that does meet it. I mean, it - it has to really be something. If Jeffrey Dahmer doesn't meet it, then nobody does; and for me, it's a psychological ploy to use”
“I'm a student of violence because I'm a student of the human heart.”
“I would not exchange the laughter of my heart for the fortunes of the multitudes.”

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