"In his bleak mercy, Death forever strips The soul of light and memory, rendering blind Our vision, lest surmounted deeps appal, As when on mountain-heights a glance behind Betrays with knowledge, and the climber slips Down gulfs of fear to some enormous fall."

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Source : Clark Ashton Smith, “The Unremembered”

Clark Ashton Smith

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“I have loved hosting over the years, simply because I love working with people. It's the perfect job.”
“And inasmuch as the bridge is a symbol of all such poetry as I am interested in writing it is my present fancy that a year from now I'll be more contented working in an office than ever before.”

Source : Hart Crane (1965). “The letters of Hart Crane, 1916-1932”
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“The materials I use are absolutely essential to the work I make.”
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Source : Nicholas Negroponte (2015). “Being Digital”, p.230, Vintage
“Cooking is an observation-based process that you can't do if you're so completely focused on a recipe.”
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“So the poor instead of bread made do with a picture of the bleeding scourged and nailed-up Christ and prayed to that image of their helplessness”

Source : Peter Weiss (1998). “Marat/Sade ; The Investigation ; and The Shadow of the Body of the Coachman”, p.60, A&C Black

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