"Every old poem is sacred."

-- Horace

#Art Quotes #Poetry Quotes #Sacred Quotes

“If I tried to shout over my older brother, my mother told me keep quiet. If I tried to shout over my little sister, my father told me to shut up. I found the best way to be heard was to lower my voice and actually speak when I had something to say.”
“People cant help how they look.”
“Just build a classic horseshoe of wood and plaster, and fill it with statuary and curtains, then sit back and savor the beautifully blended results.”
“many writers believe in arrival without leaving home. They believe in talent but not skill.”

Source : Judy Delton (1991). “The 29 most common writing mistakes and how to avoid them”, Writer's Digest Books
“Find your purpose and fling your life out to it. Find a way or make one. Try with all your might. Self-made or never made.”
“I spend as much time as I can sketching from nature, Dartmoor contains such a rich variety of landscape, as many boulders, foaming rivers and twisted trees as my heart could ever desire. . . . When I look into a river, I feel I could spend a whole lifetime just painting that river.”
“Everyone that gets an authority into his hands tyrannizes over others; as many husbands, parents, masters, magistrates, that live after the flesh do carry themselves like oppressing lords over such as are under them, not knowing that their wives, children, servants, subjects are their fellow creatures, and hath an equal privilege to share them in the blessing of liberty.”
“Do not wait for an opportunity to be all that you want to be; when an opportunity to be more than you are now is presented and you feel impelled toward it, take it. It will be the first step toward a greater opportunity.”

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