"This sunlight shames November where he grieves In dead red leaves, and will not let him shun The day, though bough with bough be overrun. But with a blessing every glade receives High salutation."

-- Dante Gabriel Rossetti

#Autumn Quotes #Blessing Quotes #Grieving Quotes

“Stop a minute, right where you are. Relax your shoulders, shake your head and spine like a dog shaking off cold water. Tell that imperious voice in your head to be still.”
“Hell, nobody knows where jazz is going to go. There may be a kid right now in Chitlin Switch, Georgia, who is going to come along and upset everybody.”

Source : Source: bigthink.com
“The extent of his influence across jazz, across American music, and around the world has such continuing stature that he is one of the few who can easily be mentioned with Stravinsky, Picasso and Joyce. His life was the embodiment of one who moves from rags to riches, from anonymity to internationally imitated innovator. Louis Daniel Armstrong supplied revolutionary language that took on such pervasiveness that it became commonplace, like the light bulb, the airplane, the telephone.”
“Pride was my wilderness, and the demon that led me there was fear.”

Source : Margaret Laurence, Nora Foster Stovel (2001). “Long Drums and Cannons”, p.38, University of Alberta
“The frightening and most difficult thing about being what somebody calls a creative person is that you have absolutely no idea where any of your thoughts come from, really. And especially, you don't have any idea about where they're going to come from tomorrow.”

Source : "Art & Copy". Documentary, www.imdb.com. 2009.
“Drag your thoughts away from your troubles... by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it.”
“I - and I bet all the panelists here - truly believe that movies really can change the world.”
“Joy could be as exhausting as grief.”

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