"Heroic figures are now obsolete,So Demigod and Devil find retreatIn minds of children - as rare beasts and men,Elsewhere extinct, persist in hill or fenFrom man protected - where each form assumesGigantic stature and intention, loomsFrom wind-moved, twilight-woven histories:For them each flower teems with mysteries."

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Source : Osbert Sitwell (1931). “The collected satires and poems of Osbert Sitwell”

Osbert Sitwell

#Children Quotes #Flower Quotes #Twilight Quotes

“Woman - for example, look at her case! She turns tantalizing inviting glances on you. You seize her. No sooner does she feel herself in your grasp than she closes her eyes. It is a sign of her mission, the sign by which she says to man: "Blind yourself, for I am blind."”
“I think of my novels as entertainments.”
“It might be said that religious freedom in the American sense, incorporating the separation of church and state, has been the pivotal concept of the national development of the United States of America.”
“I'm crap and a fatty.”
“Hopeless situations are never hopeless to God.”

Source : Chip Ingram, Chris Tiegreen (2013). “Spiritual Simplicity: Doing Less, Loving More”, p.98, Simon and Schuster
“Men can see nothing around them that is not their own image; everything speaks to them of themselves. Their very landscape is alive.”
“It is your attitude, and the suspicion that you are maturing the boldest designs against him, that imposes on your enemy.”
“A graphic is never an end in itself; it is a moment in the process of decision making.”

Source : Jacques Bertin (1981). “Graphics and Graphic Information Processing”, p.16, Walter de Gruyter

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