"Across the downs a hummingbird Came dipping through the bowers, He pivoted on emptiness To scrutinize the flowers."

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Source : Nathalia Crane (1925). “Lava Lane, and Other Poems”

Nathalia Crane

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“Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.”
“You are whole and also part of larger and larger circles of wholeness you many not even know about. You are never alone. And you already belong. You belong to humanity. You belong to life. You belong to this moment, this breath.”
“Spring and summer 1942 was probably the worst period of internal terror in Slovakia. It was also the time of mass deportation of Slovak Jews to the extermination camps in Poland.”
“When an opportunity comes your way, it's about making sure you're prepared to be the one who can walk through the door and deliver the goods. And I've had a lot of luck on my side and I've been prepared for that luck.”
“It is his nature, not his standing, that makes the good man.”
“I imagine a future aircraft, which will take off vertically, fly as usual, and land vertically. This flying machine should have no moving parts. This idea came from the huge power of cyclones.”
“The work of art will bring to light a new order inherent in things, and this will be: the idea of unity.”

Source : "Artists on Art, from the XIV to the XX Century: 100 Illustrations". Book by Robert Goldwater and Marco Treves, Pantheon books, 1947.
“Dangerous principles impose upon our understanding, emasculate our spirits, and spoil our temper.”

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