"He was a man of great statue"

-- Thomas Menino

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“Why should you think that beauty, which is the most precious thing in the world, lies like a stone on the beach for the careless passer-by to pick up idly? Beauty is something wonderful and strange that the artist fashions out of the chaos of the world in the torment of his soul. And when he has made it, it is not given to all to know it. To recognize it you must repeat the adventure of the artist. It is a melody that he sings to you, and to hear it again in your own heart you want knowledge and sensitiveness and imagination.”

Source : W. Somerset Maugham (2013). “The Essential W. Somerset Maugham Collection”, p.1312, eBookIt.com
“Myself, first of all, I am a Jew. And that is the most important thing for me.”
“I love radio - its immediacy and especially its intimacy... it is part of your life, whispering into your ear. You can't see it, but equally importantly it can't see you.”
“The nation looked upon him as a deserter, and he shrunk into insignificancy and an earldom.”
“Everything is ecstasy inside. We just don't know it because of our thinking-minds. But in our true blissful essence of mind [it] is known that everything is alright forever and forever and forever.”

Source : Ezra Pound, Bai Li (1917). “Lustra of Ezra Pound, with Earlier Poems”
“I am trying to do my own thing, but there will always be comparisons, even if I don't agree with them.”
“You have to wait together - for a week, for a year, for a lifetime, before the final intimate conversation may be attained ... and exhausted. So that ... That in effect was love.”

Source : Ford Madox Ford (1964). “Parade's End: A man could stand up”
“I think after Sandy Hook, when Obama went out, and he talked a lot about gun control and met with the parents, there was a sense that something was going to happen. But then, I guess, the power of special interests was greater than public sentiment.”

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