"Even with insects - some can sing, some can't."

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Source : Kobayashi Issa, “Even With Insects”

Kobayashi Issa

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“I've written a lot of music, so to be able to put that together and play some shows around the country and elsewhere - that would really be a fun thing to do.”

Source : "Inside Llewyn's Oscar Isaac on the Coen Brothers, Bob Dylan & Success". Interview with Tim Lammers, www.esquire.com. December 06, 2013.
“The combination player thinks forward; he starts from the given position, and tries the forceful moves in his mind”

Source : Emanuel Lasker (1960). “Lasker's Manual of Chess”, p.167, Courier Corporation
“One of the marks of true genius is a quality of abundance. A rich, rollicking abundance, enough to give indigestion to ordinary people. Great artists turn it out in rolls, in swatches. They cover whole ceilings with paintings, they chip out a mountainside in stone, they write not one novel but a shelf full. It follows that some of their work is better than other. As much as a third of it may be pretty bad. Shall we say this unevenness is the mark of their humanity - of their proud mortality as well as of their immortality?”

Source : Catherine Drinker Bowen (1961). “The Nature of the Artist: An Address Delivered at the Dedication Ceremonies for Lee Pattison Recital Hall, Wilbur Hall, Mary Kimberly Residence Hall”
“For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion, of divine illusion. Poetry attaches its emotion to the idea; the idea is the fact. The strongest part of our religion today is its unconscious poetry.”
“God finally caught his eye.”
“You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.”
“He neither serves nor rules, he transmits. His position is humble and the beauty at the crown is not his own. He is merely a channel.”
“The family farm is the foundation for who we are as a Commonwealth. And for over a century, the family farm in Kentucky has centered around one crop: tobacco.”

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