"You came to tell us that the great cities are in favour of the gold standard; we reply that the great cities rest upon our broad and fertile plains. Burn down your cities and leave our farms, and your cities will spring up again as if by magic. But destroy out farms and the grass will grow in the city...You shall not press down upon the brow of labour this crown of thorns. You shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold."

-- William Jennings Bryan

#Spring Quotes #Cities Quotes #Magic Quotes

“Poetry's work is not simply the recording of inner or outer perception; it makes by words and music new possibilities of perceiving”
“I'm certain, as we filled down the great staircase, that I appeared the same as ever, a moping twelve years-old, all arms and legs. But secretly I knew I had been transformed, moved by the revelation that human beings create art, that to be an artist was to see what others could not.”
“The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.”
“Emancipation from error is the condition of real knowledge.”
“All minds are interconnected. Otherwise they could not understand each other.”
“I believe that the imagination is the passport we create to take us into the real world. I believe the imagination is another phrase for what is most uniquely us.”

Source : John Guare (2010). “Six Degrees of Separation”, p.22, A&C Black
“What we would like to do is change the world - make it a little simpler for people to feed, clothe, and shelter themselves as God intended for them to do.”
“Dance releases energy mobilized by the fight-or-flight stress response that was otherwise restrained.”

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