"He saw wan Woman toil with famished eyes; He saw her bound, and strove to sing her free. He saw her fall'n; and wrote "The Bridge of Sighs"; And on it crossed to immortality."

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Source : William Watson, “Thomas Hood”

William Watson

#Fall Quotes #Eye Quotes #Bridges Quotes

“The primary cause of disorder and lawlessness today, as throughout history, is the poverty of the many in contrast to the affluence of the few. But a new element of unrest has been added: a growing awareness that mass poverty is caused by defective institutions that prevent our harnessing the physical capabilities of science, engineering, management and labor to create general affluence; in other words, a growing awareness that poverty in any country that is or can be industrialized, is man's not nature's fault.”
“All human accomplishment has this same origin, identically. Imagination is a force of nature. Is this not enough to make a person full of ecstasy? Imagination, imagination, imagination! It converts to actual. It sustains, it alters, it redeems!”
“Broken glass. It's just like glitter, isn't it?”

Source : New Musical Express, November 2005.
“There happened in the Middle Ages what has happened so often since then. Those who were the beneficiaries of the established order were bent on defending it, not so much, perhaps, because it guaranteed their interests, as because it seemed to them indispensable to the preservation of society.”

Source : Henri Pirenne (1956). “Medieval Cities: Their Origins and the Revival of Trade”, p.169, Princeton University Press
“When you're a freelance director, you are hired to create the art, and it kind of stops there.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The Americans ... are almost ignorant of the art of music, one of the most elevating, innocent and refining of human tastes, whose influence on the habits and morals of a people is of the most beneficial tendency.”
“The greatest need of our time is to clean out the enormous mass of mental and emotional rubbish that clutters our minds”

Source : Thomas Merton (2009). “Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander”, p.72, Image
“Faith cannot be shaken, it is the result of being shaken.”

Source : Jacob Needleman (2009). “The New Religions”, p.183, Penguin

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