"Life is a loom, weaving illusion."

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Source : Vachel Lindsay (1963). “Selected poems”

Vachel Lindsay

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“From an early age my mother told me that there were so many of us that if I was to get anything in life I would have to get it myself. So I did.”
“The future is a world limited by ourselves; in it we discover only what concerns us and, sometimes, by chance, what interests those whom we love the most.”
“An ounce of breast milk is even more potent than the finest tequila.”
“I prefer empty cages, Sabina, until I find a unique bird I once saw in my dreams.”
“Love is like a wind stirring the grass beneath trees on a black night,' he had said. 'You must not try to make love definite. It is the divine accident of life. If you try to be definite and sure about it and to live beneath the trees, where soft night winds blow, the long hot day of disappointment comes swiftly and the gritty dust from passing wagons gathers upon lips inflamed and made tender by kisses.”
“Every time you make a mistake, donâ€™t bring up everything thatâ€™s wrong with yourself; tell yourself that youâ€™re paying the price for growth and that you will learn to do better next time. Every positive thing you can say to yourself will help.”
“You have to be logical and use international words so people can relate to reggae music. I'm the inventor of the word reggae music. I'm the one who coined the word reggae. So, whatever I put out on my label - my label called D & F Music - it has to be positive.”
“The difficult thing was deciding what to leave off! I just ultimately tried to strike a balance between what was interesting to hard core fans, and what was exciting to first timers and what I liked.”

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