"Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow."

-- William Blake

#Real Quotes #Writing Quotes #Artist Quotes

“And I said to myself: That's true, hope needs to be like barbed wire to keep out despair, hope must be a mine field.”

Source : Yehuda Amichai (2006). “Open Closed Open: Poems”, p.84, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“Our sense of self-worth is the single most important determinant of the health, abundance, and joy we allow into our lives.”
“If you expound the teaching of the Logos from the standpoint of the moral life, using materialistic words and examples which correspond to the capacity of your hearers, you make the Logos flesh. Conversely, if you elucidate mystical theology by means of the higher forms of contemplation you make the Logos spirit.”
“The baggage in your individual life will weigh down your married life. Do something about it.”
“One mechanism of repression is the grand jury.”
“He left His Father's throne above, (So free, so infinite His grace!) Emptied Himself of all but love, And bled for Adam's helpless race.”

Source : Charles Wesley (2014). “Wesley's Hymns and the Methodist Sunday-School Hymn-Book”, p.219, Ravenio Books
“You can always get sympathy by using the word small. With little industries you feel as you do about a little puppy.”
“The great artist takes what he needs.”

Source : Kenneth Clark (2015). “Civilisation”, p.89, Hachette UK

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