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“The debris of shattered stars - from this debris, I built my world.”
― Dionysus-Dithyrambs
― Dionysus-Dithyrambs
“I have always liked people who can't adapt themselves to life pragmatically.”
― Sculpting in Time
― Sculpting in Time
“When someone is young, he is not capable of conceiving of time as a circle, but thinks of it as a road leading forward to ever-new horizons; he does not yet sense that his life contains just a single theme; he will come to realise it only when his life begins to enact its first variations.”
― Immortality
― Immortality
“Every true artist does feel consciously or unconsciously that he is touching transcendental truths, shadows of things seen through the veil.
In other words, the natural mystic does know that there is something there, something behind the clouds, or within the trees.
But he believes that the pursuit of beauty is how to find it and that imagination is a sort of incantation that can call it up.”
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In other words, the natural mystic does know that there is something there, something behind the clouds, or within the trees.
But he believes that the pursuit of beauty is how to find it and that imagination is a sort of incantation that can call it up.”
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“re-examine all you have been told in school or church or in any book, and dismiss whatever insults your own soul; and your very flesh shall be a great poem, and have the richest fluency, not only in its words, but in the silent lines of its lips and face, and between the lashes of your eyes, and in every motion and joint of your body.
[From the preface to Leaves Grass]”
― Leaves of Grass
[From the preface to Leaves Grass]”
― Leaves of Grass
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