"I hold with the old-fashioned criticism that Browning is not really a poet, that he has all the gifts but the one needful and the pearls without the string; rather one should say raw nuggets and rough diamonds."

-- Gerard Manley Hopkins

#Criticism Quotes #Nuggets Quotes #Pearls Quotes

“No one is free who has not obtained the empire of himself.”
“Others loved themselves, money, theories, power: Lenin loved his fellow men.... Lenin was God, as Christ was God, because God is Love and Christ and Lenin were all Love!”
“Tax dollars intended for science education must not be used to teach creationism as any sort of real explanation of nature, because any observation or process of inference about our origin and the nature of the universe disproves creationism in every respect.”
“Whenever you finish an artwork and the viewer comes and views it, at that moment you've given up control.”
“Two-up is Australia's very own way of parting a fool and his money.”
“Since childhood she had walked the Devon rivers with her father looking for flowers and the nests of birds, passing some rocks and trees as old friends, seeing a Spirit everywhere, gentle in thought to all her eyes beheld.”
“You are my koala bear, and I am your tree.”
“The documentation about the work isn't of real importance to me either. I've done lots of works without taking photographs.”

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