Matthew Pocock

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Adonis
“Image and universe are clouds that cover the sun of meaning, but are, at the same time, a way towards it.”
Adonis

Soroosh Shahrivar
“As for being a Sufi, I think every Iranian by birth is born one. It is in our blood.”
Soroosh Shahrivar, Tajrish

Adonis
“Knowledge is not seeing the visible; knowledge is seeing what lies behind it: the invisible. It is knowing the internal nature of objects.”
Adonis

Grace Hitchcock
“I must confess that you captured my heart the moment I first beheld you, and every moment I’ve spent with you afterward has only confirmed your kind, unselfish nature.”
Grace Hitchcock, Hearts of Gold Collection

Johann Gottfried Herder
“In the forest of sensible objects that surrounds me, I find my way to becoming master of the chaos of the sensations assailing me only by separating objects from others, by giving them outline, dimensions, and form; in short, by creating unity in diversity and vividly and confidently designating these objects with the stamp of my inner sense, as if this were a seal of truth. Our whole life, then, is to a certain extent poetics: we do not see images but rather create them. The Divinity has sketched them for us on a great panel of light, from which we trace their outlines and paint the images in the soul using a finer brush than that of the rays of light. For the image that is projected on the retina of your eye is not the idea that you derive from its object; it is merely a product of your inner sense, a work of art created by your soul’s faculty of perception.”
Johann Gottfried Herder, Selected Writings on Aesthetics

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