"My thoughts are my company; I can bring them together, select them, detain them, dismiss them."

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Source : Walter Savage Landor (1853). “Imaginary Conversations of Greeks and Romans”, p.74

Walter Savage Landor

#Thinking Quotes #Ideas Quotes #Together Quotes

“I'm not critic-proof, and I still take it personally, but I take it less personally now.”
“Every leader has the courage to make decisions. No decision is usually the worst decision.”
“She used to tell me that she couldn't feel the sunlight anymore, not even when she was standing in it, not even when it was hot on her cheeks”
“I'm always interested in an atmosphere where dreams and reality mingle on equal terms.”

Source : "Watch a New Video for Sigur Rós' "Varúð", Directed by Ryan McGinley" by Crrie Battan, pitchfork.com. July 31, 2012.
“The most exciting part of finding out who we are is discovering our own uniqueness, who we are outside the box, beyond the categories in a Psychology 101 textbook. In our inimitable singularity, there is an infinite range of possibility that cannot be tied to any one description of what it means to be human or healthy.”
“Composition for me is, externally at least, scarcely distinguishable from catatonia.”

Source : Richard Wilbur, William Butts (1990). “Conversations with Richard Wilbur”, p.180, Univ. Press of Mississippi
“The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.”
“A desire presupposes the possibility of action to achieve it; action presupposes a goal which is worth achieving.”

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