"My imagination can picture no fairer happiness than to continue living for art."

-- Clara Schumann

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“Ralph Waldo Emerson once asked what we would do if the stars only came out once every thousand years. No one would sleep that night, of course. The world would become religious overnight. We would be ecstatic, delirious, made rapturous by the glory of God. Instead the stars come out every night, and we watch television.”

Source : "You are Brilliant, and the Earth is Hiring". Paul Hawken's commencement speech at University of Portland in Oregon, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 2, 2014.
“The word of God is the medicine of the heart.”
“Boy, those French: they have a different word for everything!”
“Thereâ€™s no use in denying it: this has been a bad week. Iâ€™ve started drinking my own urine.”
“There was a time when people accepted magical experiences as natural. There were no priests then, and no one went chasing after the secrets of the occult.”
“I'm very comfortable in the U.S. and Europe, but I feel completely out of place in the rest of the world, mostly because I never spent time outside the U.S. and Europe until I was in my 30s.”

Source : Source: money.cnn.com
“Men of perverse opinion do not know the excellence of what is in their hands, till someone dash it from them.”
“I see the shape of the poem before I start writing, and the writing is just the process of arriving at the shape.”

Source : "I still haven't written the best I can" by Rachel Cooke, www.theguardian.com. May 2, 2009.

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