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Samuel Woodworth
"How dear to this heart are the scenes of my childhood, When fond recollection presents them to view." --
Source : Samuel Woodworth (1831). “Melodies, duets, trios, songs, and ballads, pastoral, amatory, sentimental, patriotic, religious, and miscellaneous. Together with metrical epistles, tales and recitations”, p.12
Samuel Woodworth
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“The question so often asked of modern painting, "What is it?", contains more than the dull skepticism of the man who is not going to have the wool pulled over his eyes. It speaks of a fundamental placement in relation to the work, that of a voyager in the world coming upon a strange object. The reader reconstitutes the work by his active participation, by approaching the object, tapping it, shaking it, holding it to his ear to hear the roaring within. It is characteristic of the object that it does not declare itself all at once, in a rush of pleasant naïveté.”
“I don't want to see a movie twice. I don't want to do anything twice.”
“In the past, the British had signally failed to build an effective structure of royal authority and administration in their American colonies. As a result, no possibility existed of soothing and winning over influential and talented Americans, in the way that influential and talented Scotsmen were increasingly being won over, by giving them increased access to state employment.”
Source : Linda Colley (2005). “Britons: Forging the Nation, 1707-1837”, p.136, Yale University Press
“Whether it was a song, a person, or a story, there was a lot you couldn’t know from just an excerpt, a glance, or part of a chorus.”
“I grew up in a home in which loyalty to family was central to my father's outlook. Adolescent changes to my outlook (which set me against parental values) made me very critical of loyalty, reinforced by certain religious writers I found influential at that time. Harry Blamires, The Christian Mind. But I remained conflicted about loyalty.”
Source : Source: www.3ammagazine.com
“How blunt are all the arrows of thy quiver in comparison with those of guilt.”
“There are a shitload of songs about being in love with someone who doesn't love you back and I talk about weed and my cat and being lazy a lot.”
Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
