"Does the thoughtful man suppose that...the present experiment in civilization is the last world we will see?"

-- George Santayana

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“You just can't let the outside world affect your game.You can't hold anything back. You can't play a different game.”
“Don't appear so scholarly, pray. Humanize your talk, and speak to be understood.”
“The poet's discourse can be compared to the track of a charged particle through a cloud-chamber. An energised field of association and connotation, of overtones and undertones, of rebus and homophone, surround its motion, and break from it in the context of collision .. in Western poetry so much of the charged substance is previous poetry.”
“On being: Arrogance is not the prerogative of the gifted.”
“So I like to make music, and I like to share music. This is also a gift.”

Source : "Diva Cecilia Bartoli". Interview with Elizabeth Farnsworth, www.pbs.org. November 9, 1998.
“The principle was, death should not be entered like some snug harbor. It should be an unambiguous refusal to surrender.”

Source : Thomas Keneally (2013). “Schindler's List”, p.177, Simon and Schuster
“Be aware of the big difference between inspired action and activity. Activity comes from the brain-mind and is rooted in disbelief and lack of faith - you are taking action to â€œmakeâ€ your desire happen. Inspired action is allowing the law to work through you and to move you. Activity feels hard. Inspired action feels wonderful.”
“Music before all else, and for that choose the irregular, which is vaguer and melts better into the air...”

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