"Regardless of the popular literary trend of the times, write the thing which lies close to your heart."

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Source : Bess Streeter Aldrich (1994). “A Lantern in Her Hand”, p.9, U of Nebraska Press

Bess Streeter Aldrich

#Lying Quotes #Writing Quotes #Heart Quotes

“I believe in God, Mozart and Beethoven, and likewise their disciples and apostles; - I believe in the Holy Spirit and the truth of the one, indivisible Art; - I believe that this Art proceeds from God, and lives within the hearts of all illumined men; - I believe that he who once has bathed in the sublime delights of this high Art, is consecrate to Her for ever, and never can deny Her; - I believe that through Art all men are saved.”

Source : "Pilgrimage to Beethoven and Other Essays".
“If people believe the world is here to satisfy them, whenever they begin to encounter their limitations, they become unhappy.”
“Petra turned to her. "Everybody lies about who they are. Name one person here who isn't doing that and I will drop out right now!" Shanti felt that snake of truth coil around her legs, threatening to squeeze. "I didn't mean..." "No one ever does." Petra said, shoving the baton back at Shanti.”
“Where'er ye sojourn, and whatever names Ye are or shall be called; fairies, or sylphs, Nymphs of the wood or mountain, flood or field: Live ye in peace, and long may ye be free To follow your good minds.”

Source : Hartley Coleridge, Derwent Coleridge (1851). “Poems: With a Memoir of His Life by His Brother”, p.270
“Each time I seem to go through one of life's huge things, I want to play music.”
“And the fifteenth century was an impassioned age, so ardent and serious in its pursuit of art that it consecrated everything with which art had to ad as a religious object.”
“Women are not weaker. Read that again. Women are not weaker. They are just as strong, just as resolute, just as creative, and are filled with just as much potential as any man.”

Source : Brad Meltzer (2012). “Heroes for My Daughter”, p.7, Harper Collins
“And how am I to face the odds Of man's bedevilment and God's? I, a stranger and afraid In a world I never made.”

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