"Prose proposes, verse reverses."

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Richard Howard

#Reverse Quotes #Propose Quotes #Prose Quotes

“Objective judgement, now, at this very moment.Â Unselfish action, now, at this very moment.Â Willing acceptance - now, at this very moment - of all external events.Â That's all you need.”
“The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the Supreme Being as his father, in the womb of a virgin, will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter.”
“History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn.”
“Learn that there is no cure for desire, no cure for the love of reward, no cure for the misery of longing, save in the fixing of the sight and hearing on that which is invisible and soundless.”

Source : Mabel Collins (2007). “Light on the Path”, p.17, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.
“It Girl' is such a weird term. It implies I go to parties and drink champagne.”
“The word was born in the blood, grew in the dark body, beating, and took flight through the lips and the mouth. Farther away and nearer still, still it came from dead fathers and from wondering races, from lands which had turned to stone, lands weary of their poor tribes, for when grief took to the roads the people set out and arrived and married new land and water to grow their words again. And so this is the inheritance; this is the wavelength which connects us with dead men and the dawning of new beings not yet come to light.”
“I tend to stay in one place and become a hermit and not leave. Work, work, work, and collect things, create and curate a space.”

Source : Source: www.elle.com
“Everybody's had those moments of doubt... but it's what you do with that feeling that matters.”

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