"Art is not escape, but a way of finding order in chaos, a way of confronting life."

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Source : Robert Earl Hayden, Frederick Glaysher (1984). “Collected Prose”, p.115, University of Michigan Press

Robert Hayden

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“Finally, I understood what else was going on. I might be slow, but given time, I put the pieces together. "You have no reason to be jealous, I promise. We talked... and trained. You're the only boy who gets close like this." "Oh." A long, slow breath escaped him. "I feel so stupid." I put my lips to his cheek and whispered, "Don't. I love you, Fade.”
“The rational intellect doesn't have a great deal to do with love, and it doesn't have a great deal to do with art. I am often, in my writing, great leaps ahead of where I am in my thinking, and my thinking has to work its way slowly up to what the "superconscious" has already shown me in a story or poem.”
“Now people ask whether photography is art, but I think the question is of absolutely no interest.”

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“A belief is not true simply because it is useful.”
“To transform the world women need to strive for authenticity.”

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“We do express our emotions, our reactions to events, breakups and infatuations, but the way we do that - the art of it - is in putting them into prescribed forms or squeezing them into new forms that perfectly fit some emerging context. Thatâ€™s part of the creative process, and we do it instinctively; we internalize it, like birds do. And itâ€™s a joy to sing, like the birds do.”

Source : David Byrne (2012). “How Music Works”, p.35, Canongate Books
“Sino-Japanese relations will certainly brighten more in the future and the flowers of friendly Sino-Japanese relations will increase their beauty.”
“I'm disturbed because the doctors tell me I'm as sound as a dollar.”

Source : John George Diefenbaker (1982). “The Wit & Wisdom of John Diefenbaker”, Hurtig Trade

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