"Happy who in his verse can gently steer From grave to light, from pleasant to severe."

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Source : "The Art of Poetry (Canto I)". Book by Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux, 1674.

Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

#Happiness Quotes #Light Quotes #Graves Quotes

“People find it hard to understand how I can risk ruining my career as a musician by injuring myself on the slopes, but I've always been a tomboy.”
“History has always been a series of pendulum swings, but the individual doesn't have to get caught in that.”
“The only thing worse than fighting a giant scorpion was fighting a giant scorpion who was trying to protect her young.”
“I'm famous today. People like me today. Might not like me tomorrow. You can't count on it.”
“Doing what you wanted to do was the only training, and the only preliminary, needed for doing more of what you wanted to do.”

Source : Kingsley Amis (1992). “Lucky Jim”, Penguin Classics
“And, I know the sense of helplessness that people feel. I know the urge to arm yourself because that's what I did. I was trained in firearms. I'd walk to the hospital when my husband was sick. I carried a concealed weapon. I made the determination that if somebody was going to try to take me out, I was going to take them with me.”
“I'm in my father's car at age 9 or 10 crying to Leonard Cohen's 'Famous Blue Raincoat,' thinking that you could write nearly a love letter to a man who betrayed you by having an affair with your wife. I was thinking how wonderful and pure music can be for explaining situations.”
“My painting teacher in high school used to say, 'I can't paint like I want to, but through practice I'll get better.' But I don't think that's true. I think sometimes you just can't paint.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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