Famous Quotes Ipsum

In the artist's own experience, of course, art is fundamentally indefinable, unsayable; there is something sacred about its demands upon the soul, something inherently mysterious in the forms it takes, no less than its contents. he who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying. we turn, not older with years, but newer every day. and may these characters remain / when all is ruin once again ultimately, the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or friendship, is conversation. it seems that whatever goes into my mouth makes me fat, just as whatever comes out of it embarrasses me. she walks in beauty, like the night / of cloudless climes and starry skies; / and all that's best of dark and bright / meet in her aspect and her eyes: / thus mellow'd to that tender light / which heaven to gaudy day denies i am woman, hear me roar! hell has no fury like women's fury. weekends don't count unless you spend them doing something completely pointless. you must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. any job a man can do to make his way in the world is a decent job as long as he works hard and does his best. god didn't put sweat on a man's body for no reason. he put it there so he could work hard, cleanse himself and feel proud. hard workin' folks only smell bad to some folks who have nothing better to do but stick their noses in the air. a warm smile is the universal language of kindness. it's amazing the clarity that comes with psychotic jealousy. when you get into a tight place and it seems you can't go on, hold on, for that's just the place and the time that the tide will turn. when i dare to be powerful / to use my strength / in the service of my vision / then it becomes / less and less important / whether i am afraid. when the morning's freshness has been replaced by the weariness of midday, when the leg muscles give under the strain, the climb seems endless, and suddenly nothing will go quite as you wish - it is then that you must not hesitate. oh help! i'd better go back. oh bother! i shall have to go on. i can't do either! oh help and bother! a bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song. how many joys are crushed under foot because people look up at the sky and disregard what is at their feet? i know that a life without love is no life at all. loneliness is the first thing which god's eye named, not good. is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves? it is curious how silly, trivial things, sometimes for no apparent reason, become significant. at first you laugh at these things, you think they are of no importance, you go on and you feel that you haven't got the strength to stop yourself... and so it seems to me that if i die, i shall take part in life one way or another..

I always give myself such very good advice, but i very seldom follow it. the longer i live the more i become convinced that the only thing that matters in literature is the writer is first of all an enchanter. the only thing worth saying is what you really feel. weekends don't count unless you spend them doing something completely pointless. as the last leaf falls it only symbolizes the end of the tree's cycle, not the end of the tree's life. so too, as we complete our life cycle, there is a new beginning as our souls journey onward. i mean, even the most spiritual person loves to go shopping. a bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song. to conquer loneliness we shall each have to assume the sacred responsibility of becoming a complete person. and most of all, to define ourselves without always including someone else in the definition. all sanity is great madness, but the greatest madness of all is to live life the way it is, rather than as it should be. i must pack my short life full of interesting events and creative activity. philosophy and aesthetic contemplation are not enough. i intend to do everything possible to broaden my experiences and allow myself to reach the fullest development..

To talk to each other is but a more animated and audible thinking. oh help! i'd better go back. oh bother! i shall have to go on. i can't do either! oh help and bother! can't say fairer than that. give me a museum and i'll fill it. we shall not cease from exploration - and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started - and know the place for the first time..