"Most people now seem to treasure anything they value in proportion to the extent that it's followed about and surrounded by the vulgar public."

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Source : Ada Leverson (2012). “Tenterhooks”, p.130, tredition

Ada Leverson

#People Quotes #Treasure Quotes #Proportion Quotes

“The art of one period cannot be approached through the attitudes (emotional or intellectual) of another.”
“Death is the beginning of something.”
“The instant field of the present is at all times what I call the 'pure' experience. It is only virtually or potentially either object or subject as yet.”
“My husband was getting his sea legs-rereading Joseph Conrad with a side order of C S Forester.”
“I was the original Cinderella girl, looking for the happy ending in the fairy story. But my fantasy prince never came.”
“Mary is a very well-written typical eldest child in that she puts her own needs at the forefront... She's not as inclined to conciliate or placate. Cora is fascinated by Mary”
“Mine, said the stone,mine is the hour.I crush the scissors,such is my power.Stronger than wishes,my power, alone.Mine, said the paper,mine are the wordsthat smother the stonewith imagined birds,reams of them, flownfrom the mind of the shaper.Mine, said the scissors,mine all the knivesgashing through paper'sethereal lives;nothing's so properas tattering wishes.As stone crushes scissors,as paper snuffs stoneand scissors cut paper,all end alone.So heap up your paperand scissor your wishesand uproot the stonefrom the top of the hill.They all end aloneas you will, you will.”
“A word is elegy to what it signifies.”

Source : "Meditation at Lagunitas" l. 11 (1979)

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