"To know another, and to be known by another--that is everything."

-- Florida Scott-Maxwell

“Other writers of history recorded the fighting of wars waged for the sake of children and country and other possessions. But our narrative of the government of God will record in ineffaceable letters the most peaceful wars waged in behalf of the peace of the soul.”
“W. B. Yeats has created, if not a new world, a new star. He is not a reporter of life as it is, to the extent that Shakespeare or Browning is. One is not quite certain that his kingdom is of the green earth. He is like a man who has seen the earth not directly but in a crystal.”
“Originality is what distinguishes art from craft. It is the yardstick of artistic greatness.”
“Painting cannot be the only activity of a mature artist.”
“I never looked around me because it might freak me out, because if you're up on a mountain you don't wanna like, look down.”
“Cinnamon bites and kisses simultaneously.”
“There is no such thing as absolute free speech; there are only absolute rights of private property. Speech is circumscribed by private property rights. You may deliver a disquisition in my virtual or actual living room only if I permit you to so do.”
“No idle word should be uttered. I understand a word to be idle when it serves no good purpose, either for myself or for another, and was not intended to do so.”

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