"Could beauty be beaten out, O youth the cities have sent to strike at each other's strength, it is you who have kept her alight."

-- Hilda Doolittle

#Beauty Quotes #Cities Quotes #Youth Quotes

“One day I actually took the list into the bathroom and I put it up against my face and looked in the mirror and I realized I had one of two choices, change the list or change myself.”
“The use of the term art medium is, to say the least, misleading, for it is the artist that creates a work of art not the medium. It is the artist in photography that gives form to content by a distillation of ideas, thought, experience, insight and understanding.”
“God is not a dead equation!”
“There's a huge difference between being in love and being in love with the thought of love. Recognize the difference. Never settle.”
“Do all men kill the things they do not love ............ The quality of mercy is not strain'd It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath: it is twice blest It blesseth him that gives and him that takes”
“As I got into my teens, I started reading better books, beginning with the Beats and then the hippie writers, people like Wallace Stegner up in Northern California, and all the political New Journalism stuff, the Boys on the Bus dudes and Ken Kesey.”
“If we wait until our lives are free from sorrow or difficulty, then we wait forever. And miss the entire point.”
“Spanish civilization crushed the Indian. English civilization scorned and neglected him. French civilization embraced and cherished him.”

Source : Francis Parkman (1868). “France and England in North America”, p.44

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