"The artist must create himself or be born again."

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Source : Denise Levertov (1981). “Light Up the Cave”, p.39, New Directions Publishing

Denise Levertov

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“Spiritual health is no more stable than bodily; and though we may seem unaffected by the passions we are just as liable to be carried away by them as to fall ill when in good health.”
“When law enforcers are shown to have such unswerving integrity, only the most churlish among us would question the methods they use to "get their man." Constitutional guarantees are regarded as bothersome "technicalities" that impede honest law enforcers in the performance of their duties.”
“When the time comes that a man has had his dinner, then the true man comes to the surface”
“The fuel light's on, Frank! We're all going to die! Wait, wait... Oh, my mistake - that's the intercom light.”
“Comparisons do ofttime great grievance.”

Source : "Bochas", Book III, Chapter VIII, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 125-27, 1922.
“One of the things about what . . . I do - writing plays - is that a poll is not taken before you say, Well, I'm going to write this because I think that you're going to like this and therefore you'll buy a ticket for this.”
“Any work of art makes one very simple demand on anyone who genuinely wants to get in touch with it. And that is to stop. You've got to stop what you're doing, what you're thinking, and what you're expecting and just be there for the poem for however long it takes.”
“My weakness ... is architecture. I think of my work as ephemeral architecture, dedicated to the beauty of the female body.”

Source : Christian Dior (2007). “Dior by Dior”, Victoria & Albert Museum

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