"The image cannot be dispossessed of a primordial freshness, which idea can never claim. An idea is derivative and tamed. The imageis in the natural or wild state, and it has to be discovered there, not put there, obeying its own law and none of ours. We think we can lay hold of image and take it captive, but the docile captive is not the real image but only the idea, which is the image with its character beaten out of it."

-- John Crowe Ransom

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“No matter how you get here or where you end up, human beings have this miraculous gift to make that place home.”
“Let us not make the poor our friends by our alms, not our enemies by our scorns. We had better have the ears of God full of their prayers, than heaps of money in our own coffers with their curses.”

Source : Thomas Adams (1848). “An Exposition Upon the Second Epistle General of St. Peter”, p.351
“We must be true inside, true to ourselves, before we can know a truth that is outside us. But we make ourselves true inside by manifesting the truth as we see it.”
“Hockey would be a great game... if played in the mud.”
“Light enhances but its shadow deletes, thus giving the picture its depth, its third dimension and its subtractive properties... I believe that commitment and technical skill can be achieved by means of one's own will and study , while fantasy and passion are more valuable because they are innate and inescapably peculiar assets.”
“One can't run in a park without a dog or make angels in the snow without a child and there are things one can't do without a lover, so the loss of the lover is like an amputation and the patient goes into shock.”
“I grew up in southern California in the 80s. Yes, I am a walking cliche.”

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“Myspace alone has just over 80 million users and ranks as the sixth most popular English language website and the eighth most popular site in the world.”

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