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“...artists gravitate to limits, accepting the strictures of a quatrain or triptych or concerto. Or, they invent new hinderances, having learned that in the feeling of freedom there is no discovery; in freedom we fall into the familiar ways of seeing and moving, and for this nobody needs art. It is only when the usual becomes impossible--as when sight dims or comfortable language is set aside--that an artist can experiment with unknown gradations of expression.”
― Linguaphile: A Life of Language Love
― Linguaphile: A Life of Language Love
“An action is the perfection and publication of thought.”
― Nature and Selected Essays
― Nature and Selected Essays
“If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.”
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“... our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness.”
― Speak, Memory
― Speak, Memory
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