"The wastes of snow on the hill were ghostly in the moonlight. The stars were piercingly bright."

-- Maud Hart Lovelace

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“When a poem is really finished, you can't change anything. You can't move words around. You can't say, 'In other words, you mean.' No, that's not it. There are no other words in which you mean it. This is it.”

Source : "Bill Moyers Journal", www.pbs.org. June 26, 2009.
“I think that's a challenge as believers - how do you demonstrate the gospel? How do you do that? I mean it's easy to talk about it and say 'Oh this is what we are supposed to be doing' and this is the relevance. But how do you do that with your hands instead of your mouth? How do you do it every day, instead of just onstage, how is it enacted? And I feel like that is one of the ways that we can show what we believe, by how we treat people around the world.”
“Aesthetic value emanates from the struggle between texts: in the reader, in language, in the classroom, in arguments within a society. Aesthetic value rises out of memory, and so (as Nietzsche saw) out of pain, the pain of surrendering easier pleasures in favour of much more difficult ones ... successful literary works are achieved anxieties, not releases from anxieties.”
“At some future time I shall see New York the artist's ground. I think you will create an American School.”

Source : Mary Cassatt, National Gallery of Art (U.S.) (1970). “Mary Cassatt, 1844-1926”
“I play my own music. Fans come out to hear the songs I've made.”
“Men who watch, and say little, very often are much wiser than the men they serve.”

Source : Susanna Kearsley (2011). “Sophia's Secret”, p.100, Allison & Busby
“Shaming and blaming your kid isn't going to make them change. You can't change yourself. Would I love to be tall and blonde? Yes, but that's not going to happen. I'm always going to be short and dark-haired, maybe gray-haired now.”

Source : Source: chicago.gopride.com
“I've been loving music all my life.”

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