"It seems an odd idea to my students that poetry, like all art, leads us away from itself, back to the world in which we live. It furnishes the vision. It shows with intense clarity what is already there."

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Source : Helen Smith Bevington (1961). “When Found, Make a Verse of”

Helen Bevington

#Art Quotes #Ideas Quotes #Vision Quotes

“No higher duty, or more solemn responsibility, rests upon this Court than that of translating into living law and maintaining this constitutional shield deliberately planned and inscribed for the benefit of every human being subject to our Constitution-of whatever race, creed or persuasion.”

Source : "Chambers v. Florida, 309 U.S. 227". Writing for the court, 1940.
“The sun was bobbing on the horizon, just peeking over. Its light shimmered on the sand behind you, making your body look like it was glowing â€¦ like it had a kind of aura.”
“If you are deaf, you need captions for spoken elements. If you are blind, you need voiced descriptions of Web contents and spoken renderings of e-mail. The range of physical disabilities is very large, and we need many different tools to overcome the consequential barriers to Internet use. Let us commit ourselves to truly assuring that the Internet really is for everyone.”
“I don't deal in technique. I deal in emotions.”
“The creative process requires chaos before form emerges.”

Source : Marilyn Ferguson (1987). “The Aquarian Conspiracy: Personal and Social Transformation in the 1980s”, Tarcher
“Doctor Killebrew was also in the script at one point, and for creative reasons we ended up cutting him.”
“The nice thing about money is that you can do good things with it. I still feel like if something needs to be done or we need to raise money for someone on death row, we can find ways to do it.”
“One of my mom's best lines is... You're not training to be the best in the world, you're training to be the best in the world on your worst day.”

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