"God's poet is silence! His song is unspoken, And yet so profound, so loud, and so far, It fills you, it thrills you with measures unbroken, And as soft, and as fair, and as far as a star."

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Source : Joaquin Miller (1873). “Songs of the Sun-lands”, p.25

Joaquin Miller

#Song Quotes #Stars Quotes #Profound Quotes

“You got to be pretty thin to be in the movies, or it helps. I would actually love to do it.”
“Good does not become better by being exaggerated, but worse; And a small evil becomes a big one through being disregarded and repressed.”
“Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel.”
“The feeble howl with the wolves, bray with the asses, and bleat with the sheep.”
“If you understand something, you understand that it is obvious.”
“I never think about the audience. If someone gives me a marketing report, I throw it away.”

Source : "Wall-E is Hollywood's new star, so why is he causing an eco row?" by David Smith, www.theguardian.com. July 6, 2008.
“If you take 12 waters from the coconut - not the ones you buy in the store, although that's good - but the fresh coconuts, the little brown ones with the three eyes, if you take 12 of those within 24 hours, your blood will go back to the way it was when you were born.”
“A painter's got a canvas. The writer's got reams of empty paper. A musician has silence.”

Source : Twitter post from Sep 17, 2012

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