"It is what man does not know of God Composes the visible poem of the world."

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Source : Richard Eberhart (1979). “Of Poetry and Poets”, Urbana : University of Illinois Press

Richard Eberhart

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“I believe the advantage music has is the capacity to multiply itself, the capacity to keep itself in space and access itself at different times and in different processes and to make profound analyses, analyses that through musicality would be able to connect with people who don't necessarily have the energy or wish in any exact moment to connect to well-read or critical analysis.”
“It made me have a much greater understanding of loss, of loneliness, and the level of intense tragedy that so many people have experienced in this world, I take a lot less for granted.”

Source : "Profile: Adrien Brody" by John Patterson, www.theguardian.com. March 29, 2003.
“Management cares about only one thing. Paperwork. They will forgive almost anything else - cost overruns, gross incompetence, criminal indictments - as long as the paperwork's filled out properly. And in on time.”
“Manye chapeleyns arn chaste, ac charite is aweye; Are none hardere than hii whan hii ben avaunced: Unkynde to hire kyn and to alle Cristene, Chewen hire charite and chiden after moore - Swich chastite withouten charite worth cheyned in helle.”

Source : William Langland, “The Vision Of Piers Plowman - Part 01”
“Beauty and happiness and life are all the same and they are pervasive, unattached and abstract and they are our only concern. They are immeasurable, completely lacking in substance. They are perfect and sublime. This is the subject matter of art.”

Source : Agnes Martin (2005). “Schriften”, Cantz
“During the lifetime of Japan I became very neurotic, very paranoid.”
“The only way of full knowledge lies in the act of love; this act transcends thought, it transcends words. It is the daring plunge into the experience of union. To love somebody is not just a strong feeling-it is a decision, it is a judgment, it is a promise.”
“Any distraction tends to get in the way of being an effective gangster.”

Source : Interview with June Thomas, www.slate.com. September 14, 2012.

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