"The warm sun kissed the earthTo consecrate thy birth,And from his close embraceThy radiant faceSprang into sight,A blossoming delight."

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Sarah Orne Jewett

#Sight Quotes #Blossoming Quotes #Sun Quotes

“I like necklaces that are short, the way skateboarders used to wear them in the seventies.”
“I try to be respectful about getting an honor or recognition, but I don't really know what the Rock Hall actually is. In my experience with the people who run it, I don't see it having to do with anything other than them making money.”
“When I stopped eating meat, I fell in love with East Indian food - there's so much selection, and they use the most beautiful spices.”
“...beauty, she had discovered occupied a narrow band. Ugliness, on the hand, had infinite variation.”
“Skill in any performance whether it be in sports in playing the piano in conversation or in selling merchandise consists not in painfully and consciously thinking out each action as it is performed but in relaxing and letting the job do itself through you. Creative performance is spontaneous and â€˜naturalâ€™ as opposed to self-conscious and studied.”
“Simply because the nanny-state wants to hug you doesn't mean it's not tyrannical if you don't want to be hugged.”
“Praise, help, or even a look, may be enough to interrupt him, or destroy the activity. It seems a strange thing to say, but this can happen even if the child merely becomes aware of being watched. After all, we too sometimes feel unable to go on working if someone comes to see what we are doing. The great principle which brings success to the teacher is this: as soon as concentration has begun, act as if the child does not exist. Naturally, one can see what he is doing with a quick glance, but without his being aware of it.”
“To me, the circle and the square where the sky and the earth, as symbolized by the ancient Oriental religions; they formed a kind of rudimentary alphabet by means of which everything could be expressed with the most limited means. They evoked prehistoric runes and the early I-Ching, or Book of Changes.”

Source : "Abstract Painting". Book by Michel Seuphor, Dell Publishing Co., p. 98, 1964.

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