"When you are very old, and sit in the candle - light at evening spinning by the fire, you will say, as you murmur my verses, a wonder in your eyes, 'Ronsard sang of me in the days when I was fair."

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Source : 'Sonnets pour Hèléne' (1578) bk. 2, no. 42

Pierre de Ronsard

#Eye Quotes #Light Quotes #Fire Quotes

“Two sure ways to fail- Think and never do or do and never think.”
“I was thinking that when I have children, that I should always dress as a character for them, so they think their mom is Alice in Wonderland or Cinderella. It would be totally messed up!”
“Sometimes, flying feels too godlike to be attained by man. Sometimes, the world from above seems too beautiful, too wonderful, too distant for human eyes to see .”

Source : Charles A. Lindbergh, Reeve Lindbergh (2003). “The Spirit of St. Louis”, p.288, Simon and Schuster
“Optimism.. is the enemy of the rational buyer”
“In contrast to reincarnation and karma, all other views seem petty and narrow”
“People, it turns out, aren't a product of their own time. They're a product of the time before theirs”
“I hoped I could make people smile and laugh and have a good time.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Serious art has been the work of individual artists whose art has had nothing to do with style because they were not in the least connected with the style or the needs of the masses. Their work arose rather in defiance of their times.”

Source : "The 'Savages' of Germany". Der Blaue Reiter (Blue Rider) Almanak, Munich, 1912.

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