"The work of the artist is to heal the soul."

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Kathleen Raine

#Artist Quotes #Soul Quotes #Heal Quotes

“Let the character as it began be preserved to the last; and let it be consistent with itself.”
“There are a lot of groups that feel a little bit strange around me, because I am inclusive.”
“Why are you drinking? demanded the little prince. "So that I may forget," replied the tippler. "Forget what?" inquired the little prince, who was already sorry for him. "Forget that I am ashamed," the tippler confessed, hanging his head. "Ashamed of what?" insisted the little prince, who wanted to help him. "Ashamed of drinking!”
“How do I pray? I study a rose, I count the stars, I marvel at the beauty of creation and how perfectly ordered it is, at man, the most beautiful work of the Creator, his brain thirsting for knowledge, his heart for love, and his senses, all his senses alert or gratified.”

Source : Amin Maalouf (1998). “Samarkand”, Interlink Publishing Group Incorporated
“There is no such thing as a dumb question but there is such a thing as a dumb person asking a question.”
“The real terrorist threats are George W. Bush and his band of brown-shirted thugs.”
“The comparative view of the powers of the magistrates, in two remarkable instances, is alone sufficient to represent the whole system of German manners. The disposal of the landed property within their district was absolutely vested in their hands, and they distributed it every year according to a new division. At the same time, they were not authorised to punish with death, to imprison, or even to strike, a private citizen.”
“Oh, my ways are strange ways and new ways and old ways, And deep ways and steep ways and high ways and low, I'm at home and at ease on a track that I know not, And restless and lost on a road that I know.”

Source : Henry Lawson, Walter Stone (1973). “Poems of Henry Lawson”, Sydney : Ure Smith

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