"What a severe yet master artist old Winter is... No longer the canvas and the pigments, but the marble and the chisel..."

-- John Burroughs

#Winter Quotes #Artist Quotes #Canvas Quotes

“The more [people] know about the invasion and occupation of Iraq, the less they support it.”
“You fit into me like a hook into an eye a fish hook an open eye”
“The Violence Against Women Act has been a true bipartisan success story since it was first enacted in 1994. In my home state of Texas alone, its programs have helped hundreds of thousands of victims to break free from the terrible cycle of domestic violence.”
“I've operated and launched newspapers all over the world.”
“In the glare of your mind, be modest. And beholden to what is tactile, and thrilling.”
“The poet, like the lover, is a person unable to reconcile what he knows with what he feels. His peculiarity is that he is under a certain compulsion to do so.”
“To avoid the necessity of a permanent debt and its inevitable consequences, I have advocated and endeavored to carry into effect the policy of confining the appropriations for the public service to such objects only as are clearly with the constitutional authority of the Federal Government.”

Source : Martin Van Buren (2009). “Messages and Papers of the Presidents: Martin Van Buren, William Henry Harrison, John Tyler, James K. Polk”, p.1829, Wildside Press LLC
“The last advance of reason is to recognize that it is surpassed by innumerable things; it is feeble if it cannot realize that.”

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