"I knelt, and with the fervor of a lip unused to the cool breath of reason, told my love."

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Source : Nathaniel Parker Willis (1829). “Fugitive Poetry”, p.48

Nathaniel Parker Willis

#Lips Quotes #Reason Quotes #Courtship Quotes

“The purpose and function of government is not to preside over change but to prevent change. By political methods when unavoidable, by violence when convenient.”
“It's bad for your brain not to unplug.”
“I hope I will be able to paint as long as I live,”

Source : "Exclusive - Bones and Landscapes Inspire Danish Queen's Art". Interview with John Acher, www.reuters.com. January 26, 2012.
“Even the most incorrigible maverick has to be born somewhere. He may leave the group that produced him-he may be forced to-but nothing will efface his origins, the marks of which he carries with him everywhere. I think it is important to know this and even find it a matter for rejoicing, as the strongest people do, regardless of their station. On this acceptance, literally, the life of a writer depends.”

Source : Source: ncac.org
“Consider your own place in the universal oneness of which we are all a part, from which we all arise, and to which we all return.”
“What is called "objectivity," scientific for instance (in which I firmly believe, in a given situation) imposes itself only within a context which is extremely vast, old, firmly established, or rooted in a network of conventions ... and yet which still remains a context.”

Source : "Limited Inc". Book by Jacques Derrida, 1977.
“Either you decide to stay in the shallow end of the pool or you go out in the ocean.”
“I spend tons of time on the music for the fashion shows. I work with this DJ, Jeremy Healy, and we do, like, four or five sessions during the week leading up to the show where we put the music together.”

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