"In the sheltered heart of the clumps last year's foliage still clings to the lower branches, tatters of orange that mutter with the passage of the wind, the talk of old women warning the green generation of what they, too, must come to when the sap runs back."

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Source : Jacquetta Hawkes (1952). “A land”

Jacquetta Hawkes

#Running Quotes #Heart Quotes #Winter Quotes

“The definition of deism is the philosophical idea of God as a first cause of the universe, who lays down the laws of nature and lets them run like clockwork, indifferent to the fate of the people subject to them.”
“One of the most significant design principles is to omit the unimportant in order to emphasize the important.”

Source : François Burkhardt, Inez Franksen, Dieter Rams (1981). “Design: Dieter Rams &”
“Reading, because we control it, is adaptable to our needs and rhythms. We are free to indulge our subjective associative impulse; the term I coin for this is deep reading: the slow and meditative possession of a book. We don't just read the words, we dream our lives in their vicinity. The printed page becomes a kind of wrought-iron fence we crawl through, returning, once we have wandered, to the very place we started.”

Source : Sven Birkerts (2006). “The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age”, p.168, Macmillan
“"Dead upon the field of glory," Hero fit for song and story.”
“Better the fragrant herb of wit and a little cream of affability than all the pretty cups in the world.”

Source : Van Wyck Brooks (1944). “Literature in New England: The Flowering of New England, 1815-1865. New England: Indian Summer, 1865-1915”, New York Garden City [1944]
“To make lashes curl better, take a hair dryer to your eyelash curler for one or two seconds before using it.”
“Radiance belongs to being considered precisely as beautiful: it is, in being, that which catches the eye, or the ear, or the mind, and makes us want to perceive it again”

Source : Étienne Gilson (1976). “The arts of the beautiful”, Greenwood Publishing Group
“Life, deal gently with her ... Love, never desert her”

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