"The first demand any work of art makes upon us is to surrender. Look. Listen. Receive. Get yourself out of the way."

-- C. S. Lewis

#Art Quotes #Demand Quotes #Way Quotes

“Lost! Lost! Lost! Better a whole world on fire than a soul lost! Better every star quenched and the skies a wreck than a single soul to be lost!”
“In winter, when the dismal rain Comes down in slanting lines, And Wind, that grand old harper, smote His thunder-harp of pines.”
“One is as one is, and the love that can't encompass both is a poor sort of love.”
“Cities have personalities, just as people do, and that finding the right place to live is akin to finding the right partner to live with.”
“Enlightenment doesn't mean we were never wounded; it means we've found a way to evolve beyond our wounds. Enlightenment isn't idealistic; it's practical. What's idealistic is thinking we can live from our wounds, stay in our weakness, and ever transform the world.”
“For the whole world, without a native home, Is nothing but a prison of larger room.”

Source : Abraham Cowley (1779). “The Poems of Cowley”, p.113
“Young men have visions, old men have dreams.”

Source : Red Smith (2013). “American Pastimes: The Very Best of Red Smith (The Library of America)”, p.325, Library of America
“Long after the bomb falls and you and your good deeds are gone, cockroaches will still be here, prowling the streets like armored cars.”

Source : Slaves of New York "Modern Saint 271" (1986)

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