"In some ways painters have been more important in my life than writers. Painters teach you how to seeâ€”a faculty that usually isnâ€™t highly developed in poets. Whether you take a walk in the woods with a painter, or go to a museum with one, through them you notice shapes, colors, harmonies, relationships that enhance your own seeing."

-- Carolyn Kizer

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“It has cost them but a moment to cut off that head; but a hundred years will not be sufficient to produce another like it.”
“You cannot be anything if you want to be everything. But if you are content to be something, you may by analogy be many things.”
“When the Promise of American life is conceived as a national ideal, whose fulfillment is a matter of artful and laborious work, the effect thereof is substantially to identify the national purpose with the social problem.”

Source : Herbert Croly (2005). “The Promise of American Life”, p.24, Cosimo, Inc.
“When he took BP everybody would kind of stop what they were doing and watch.”
“I really romanticized being pregnant. Then I realized, this is awful!”
“Of the infinite variety of fruits which spring from the bosom of the earth, the trees of the wood are the greatest in dignity.”

Source : Susan Fenimore Cooper (1850). “Rural Hours”, p.203
“When I write after dark", observed Cyril Connolly, "the shades of evening scatter their purple through my prose”

Source : Anne Fadiman (2008). “At Large and At Small: Familiar Essays”, p.64, Macmillan
“If you aren't nurturing your self, what kind of mother can you be, anyway?”

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