"Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought."

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Source : "To a Skylark" l. 88 (1819)

Percy Bysshe Shelley

#Song Quotes #Musical Quotes #Sorrow Quotes

“Love lives with Nature, not with lust. Go find her in the flowers.”

Source : John Clare (1949). “Poems of John Clare's madness”
“If we spend our days trying to avoid the landmines of stepping out of God's will, then will be afraid to take any risks for his kingdom. But when you know there is a net of grace, when you know that God will catch you and set you back on his path when you fall, then you'll feel the freedom to pursue the adventure that kingdom living is all about.”
“Propaganda replaces moral philosophy.”
“Not that you need to be a saint to have visions worth talking about. The most effective prescription, I suspect, is to be a disciplined sinner. Perfection, as Valery noted, is work.”
“All my early memories are of forms and shapes and textures. Moving through and over the West Riding landscape with my father in his car, the hills were sculptures; the roads defined the form. Above all, there was the sensation of moving physically over the contours of fullnessess and concavities, through hollows and over peaks - feeling, touching, seeing, through mind and hand and eye. This sensation has never left me. I, the sculptor, am the landscape. I am the form and the hollow, the thrust and the contour.”

Source : Barbara Hepworth (Dame) (1978). “A pictorial autobiography”
“There are personal reasons, psychological reasons, but there could also be political reasons for becoming a terrorist.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“To believe that the intolerable crime is to burn a few cars and rob some shops, whereas to kill a young man is trivial, is typically in keeping with what Marx regarded as the principal alienation of capitalism: the primacy of things over existence, of commodities over life and machines over workers”

Source : Alain Badiou, Gregory Elliott (2012). “The Rebirth of History: Times of Riots and Uprisings”, p.20, Verso Books
“Years of misguided teaching have resulted in the destruction of the best in our society, in our cultures and in the environment.”

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