"I like to think how easily Nature will absorb London as she absorbed the mastodon, setting her spiders to spin the winding-sheet and her worms to fill in the grave, and her grass to cover it pitifully up, adding flowers - as an unknown hand added them to the grave of Nero."

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Source : Thomas, Edward (2014). “The South Country”, p.80, Read Books Ltd

Edward Thomas

#Flower Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Hands Quotes

“Imprisoned in a cage of sound, even the trivial seems profound”

Source : John Betjeman (2005). “Faith and Doubt of John Betjeman: An Anthology of Betjeman's Religious Verse”, p.73, A&C Black
“Injustice boils in men's hearts as does steel in its cauldron, ready to pour forth, white hot, in the fullness of time.”
“Playing in front of people is a lot different from playing in your room”
“Ordinary life does not interest me.”
“I just needed a job. Before being hired as an usher at the CBS Theater, I didn't even know there was a show business.”
“I've been busy for a long, long time. I've received a ton of awards in the past few years ... I think they're really great, it's really an honor, but s**t - I really have to work for these things.”

Source : "Carrie Mae Weems and a shifting stage". Interview with Tess Mayer, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 4, 2016.
“There are artists with palettes and easels selling the kind of modern art that Soviet art critics used to critique with bulldozers. Judging by the paintings I saw, the Soviets were right the first time.”
“The only way you can be universal is to be sure you are very specifically local.”

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