"Secret Instructions for Reaching Xanadu: Go eastward from the Bewildered-Dragon Lake Until you see the Monastery of the West Tower straight and high above your head. Then take Those charms which, as I told you, in the breast Of your most inner robe you have hidden, and follow Their clear instruction."

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Source : Arthur Davison Ficke (1938). “Selected Poems: With a Preface on the Nature of Poetry”

Arthur Davison Ficke

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“Fortunately, taking a picture leaves no mark.”
“I was five years old when I wrote my first song. It was out of longing for my father that I wrote it.”
“I really want to adopt a child... I want to be called 'Mom.' It really is the most beautiful word in the English language.”

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“I think I've grown a lot in the last few years, and I needed to express myself as an artist on this. It wasn't necessarily about going in and making an album chocked full of hit singles... there were a lot of things I did out of the joy and the want to do it.”
“It is always the silly things that remind me”
“My experience is what I agree to attend to.”
“There are many different types of kisses. There's a passionate kiss of farewell - like the kind Rhett gave Scarlett when he went off to war. The kiss of I-can't-really-be-with-you-but-I-want-to-be - like with Superman and Lois Lane. There's the first kiss - one that is gentle and hesitant, warm and vulnerable. And then there's the kiss of possession - which was how Ren kissed me now.”
“Whenever we think of the body as a vessel for artistic ideas, we somehow always focus on the surface of the body. But the truth is that there is no surface of the body independent of its interior. It's obvious that the outside of the body is always connected to the inside, to thought processes and to an internal anatomy.”

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