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Cole’s Quotes

“To burn always with this hard gemlike flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life.”
― Walter Pater, The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry

tags: ecstasy, success

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“Taste is the only morality. Tell me what you like and I'll tell you what you are.”
― John Ruskin

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“Here with a Loaf of Bread beneath the Bough,
A Flask of Wine, a Book of Verse - and Thou
Beside me singing in the Wilderness -
And Wilderness is Paradise enow.”
― Omar Khayyám, Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

tags: bread, companionship, life, love, paradise, poetry, satisfaction, sufficiency, wine

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“I am trying to be unfamiliar with what I'm doing.”
― John Cage

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“Nothing is truly beautiful unless it cannot be used for anything; everything that is useful is ugly because it is the expression of some need, and those of man are ignoble and disgusting, like his poor and infirm nature.”
― Theophile Gautier

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Theatre Books and Plays — 1504 members — last activity Dec 06, 2025 03:55PM
A room for lovers of theatre, theater books, texts on acting, directing, theory and scripts.

The Immortal Poets Society — 128 members — last activity May 12, 2024 04:14AM
We read and discuss poetry from Homer to Frost. We are mostly interested in English and American poetry from Shakespeare to T.S. Eliot and Robert Fros ...more

Experimental Poetry — 186 members — last activity Aug 25, 2023 04:02PM
for experimental poetry enthusiasts +++++++ from all corners of the avant/arriere-garde... futurism, dada, ultraism, gendai haiku, surrealism, angry ...more