"Only super-efforts count."

-- G. I. Gurdjieff

“In England Giordano Bruno had given lectures on the plurality of worlds, and in that country had written, in Italian, his most important works. It added not a little to the exasperation against him, that he was perpetually declaiming against the insincerity, the impostures, of his persecutors - that wherever he went he found skepticism varnished over and concealed by hypocrisy; and that it was not against the belief of men, but against their pretended belief, that he was fighting; that he was struggling with an orthodoxy that had neither morality nor faith.”
“I love you. I love you, but Iâ€™m turning to my verses and my heart is closing like a fist.”
“What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.”
“Be an artist at whatever you do. Even if you are a street sweeper, be the Michelangelo of street sweepers.”
“Good words will not give my people good health and stop them from dying. Good words will not get my people a home where they can live in peace and take care of themselves. I am tired of talk that comes to nothing. It makes my heart sick when I remember all the good words and broken promises.”
“You aren't a true husband/man until you've done the work of a wife/women”
“For the mystic what is how. For the craftsman how is what. For the artist what and how are one.”
“The fact of the matter is that the most unexpected and miraculous thing in my life was the arrival in it of poetry itself - as a vocation and an elevation almost.”

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