"Beautiful and rare Aurora, In the heavens thou art their Flora"

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Source : Christopher Pearse Cranch (1844). “Poems”, p.48

Christopher Pearse Cranch

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“When I make a dress that someone wants to put on and somebody else wants to take off, then I know I've got it right. Because when someone looks good on the outside, they'll feel good on the inside.”
“...you're on this earth with a divine purpose: to rise to the level of your highest creative possibility, expressing all that you are intellectually, emotionally, psychologically, and physically in order to make the universe a more beautiful place.”
“Well I live in Vienna with my wife and son, and I teach in Hamburg, there will be no changes in that respect.”
“With young people, there's often that carelessness, allowing yourself to get into danger - recklessness, I suppose.”
“The classic relationship with grass that early hippies had was that it's better shared with friends. You can't really get high with a bad attitude. Kindness and sweetness exhilarates your stone. Stolen grass doesn't get you as high. The old hippie ethic really counts”
“There is nothing to compare with the instantaneous feedback a singer gets from the people sitting in front of him. That is where it all comes together - all the rehearsing and working to get everything just exactly right.”
“I don't want this music to die.The older people are passing it on to the younger generation so the younger generation can pass it on to the next generation.”
“I always thought I had to earn God's love and approval. I kept trying, but it never seemed like I could do it, and I thought, "Man, what's wrong with me?" A friend of mine was like, "Man, you're full of it. You're trying to do what Christ has already done: You're trying to earn your salvation and you can't - it's a free gift." It sounded too good to be true. He said, "You need to start reading the Bible for yourself and stop taking everyone else's word for it." When I really started to do this, I realized God loved me no matter what.”

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