"The art has to make it on its own, without explanations, and itâ€™s the same for poetry. If the poem or the painting has to be explained, then itâ€™s a failure in communication."

-- Lawrence Ferlinghetti

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“Before Donald Trump, I was not worried. To be honest with you, when I came to the United States, I felt freedom right away. But after Trump, I became worried not only for immigrants, not only for Muslims, not only for the US. Now I'm worried for the whole world.”
“My husband does not like me to give interviews because I say too much. No talk, no trouble.”
“I believe we find ourselves in a period of radical transformation. Regardless of whether it is digitalization, the environment or terrorism. We can be successful in this new world. We have the necessary willingness. The French are inventive and innovative. But we need to finally pick ourselves up.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de
“It's OK to sit in the Golden Globe room and look around and think, 'Oh, Helen Mirren's a loser tonight, so is Nicole Kidman. Meryl Streep lost tonight. Jessica Lange didn't win.' If you're gonna be in the company of losers, that's the company to be in.”
“If we - particularly, if we peremptorily attack North Korea - that without deliberation, that North Korea will reflexively unleash all the rocketry and artillery - which they're pretty good at, by the way - on Seoul, and do as they vowed many times, to convert Seoul into a sea of fire. So, if we do something like this, this will have cataclysmic results.”

Source : Source: www.politico.com
“The flowers of Spring may wither, the hope of Summer fade, The Autumn droop in Winter, the birds forsake the shade; The winds be lull'dâ€”the Sun and Moon forget their old decree, But we in Nature's latest hour, O Lord! will cling to Thee.”

Source : Reginald Heber (1827). “Hymns, written and adapted to the weekly church service of the year”, p.97
“You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.”
“I think it's dangerous to be optimistic. Things could go terribly wrong virtually overnight”

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