"The poetic act consists of suddenly seeing that an idea splits up into a number of equal motifs and of grouping them; they rhyme."

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Stephane Mallarme

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“God will never plant the seed of his life upon the soil of a hard, unbroken spirit. He will only plant that seed where the conviction of his spirit has brought brokenness, where the soil has been watered with the tears of repentance as well as the tears of joy.”
“It is time for dead languages to be quiet.”

Source : "A Perilous Advantage: The Best of Natalie Clifford Barney".
“Arrogance is actually just ignorance. Ignorance of what you really are in relation to the world-but most of all in relation to God.”
“Until the content of a belief is made clear, the appeal to accept the belief on faith is beside the point, for one would not know what one has accepted. The request for the meaning of a religious belief is logically prior to the question of accepting that belief on faith or to the question of whether that belief constitutes knowledge.”
“Power is what spoils people. Yes, it seems to me that the seeking after power is the great danger and the great corruptor of mankind.”

Source : "The Nuremberg Interviews". Book by Leon Goldensohn, Robert Gellately, p. 245 (To Leon Goldensohn, June 16, 1946), 2004.
“There's always a story in music, and it's expressed through my music.”
“But tales like this must not be taken as truth. You must remind yourself that it is hard to tell where truth ends and a lie begins. So listen all you like, but disbelieve all you hear... You are in the city of lies.”

Source : Arlene J. Chai (2011). “Eating Fire and Drinking Water”, p.419, Ballantine Books
“Poetry can keep life itself alive. You can endure almost anything as long as you can sing about it.”

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