"Fair are the flowers and the children, but their subtle suggestion is fairer; Rarer is the roseburst of dawn, but the secret that clasps it rarer; Sweet the exultance of song, but the strain that precedes it is sweeter And never was poem yet writ, but the meaning outmastered the meter."

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Source : Richard Realf, Richard Josiah Hinton (1893). “Poems”

Richard Realf

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“I can't understand how anyone is able to paint without optimism. Despite the general pessimistic attitude in the world today, I am nothing but an optimist.”

Source : "The Artist's Voice: Talks with Seventeen Artists". Book by Katharine Kuh, p. 119, 1962.
“May peace rule the universe, may peace rule in kingdoms and empires, may peace rule in states and in the lands of the potentates, may peace rule in the house of friends and may peace also rule in the house of enemies.”
“Magnitudes are algebraically represented by letter, men by men of letters, and so on.”
“You don't forget the movies, but you forget the details of them.”
“Come on, Jellal! You can't let yourself get taken away from you! For Erza's sake! So come here! We'll be with you too! We're on the same team, right?! Jellal!”
“Who's they?" He wanted to know. "Who, specifically, do you think is trying to murder you?" "Every one of them," Yossarian told him. "Every one of whom?" "Every one of whom do you think?" "I haven't any idea." "Then how do you know they aren't?" "Because..." Clevinger sputtered, and turned speechless with frustration. Clevinger really thought he was right, but Yossarian had proof, because strangers he didn't know shot at him with cannons every time he flew up into the air to drop bombs on them, and it wasn't funny at all.”
“Know thyself means this, that you get acquainted with what you know, and what you can do.”
“When I was in graduate school in consumer science and math, all of the big companies had labs, all doing blue sky research,”

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