It is not living that matters, but living rightly.
I'm not a star!!! A star is nothing but a ball of gas!!!
Elijah Wood
The temporary good is enemy to the permanent best.
Bill Wilson
Their time past, pulled down cracked and flung to the fire go up in a roar All recognition lost, burnt clean clean in the flame, the green dispersed, a living red, flame red, red as blood wakes on the ash--
William Carlos Williams, Burning
Afraid lest he be caught up in a net of words, tripped up, bewildered and so defeated
William Carlos Williams, Journal
Practical to the end, it is the poem of his existence that triumphed finally;...
William Carlos Williams, The Spa
Unity and simplicity are the two true sources of beauty.
Johann Joachim Winckelmann
At that instant he saw, in one blaze of light, an image of unutterable conviction, the reason why the artist works and lives and has his being--the reward he seeks--the only reward he really cares about, without which there is nothing. It is to snare the spirits of mankind in nets of magic, to make his life prevail through his creation, to wreak the vision of his life, the rude and painful substance of his own experience, into the congruence of blazing and enchanted images that are themselves the core of life, the essential pattern whence all other things proceed, the kernel of eternity.
Thomas Wolfe, Of Time and the Ri
I walk slowly, but I never walk backward.
Abraham Lincoln
The ballot is stronger than the bullet.
We are made to persist. That's how we find out who we are.
Tobias Wolff, 'In Pharaoh's Army
There are very few professions in which people just sit down and think hard for five or six hours a day all by themselves. Of course it
Tobias Wolff
Old times never come back and I suppose it's just as well. What comes back is a new morning every day in the year, and that's better.
George E. Woodberry
Oh happy we, the first-born heirs of nature, For whom the Heavenly Sun delays his light! He by the sweets of every mortal creature Tempers eternal beauty to our sight; And by the glow upon love's earthly feature Maketh the path of our departure bright.
George E. Woodberry, Immortal Lo
There are two men inside the artist, the poet and the craftsman. One is born a poet. One becomes a craftsman.
Emile Zola
I am an artist. I am here to live out loud.
A good man, is a good man, whether in this church, or out of it.
Brigham Young
There is no knowledge, no light, no wisdom that you are in possession of, but what you have received it from some source.
Fast is fine, but accuracy is everything.
Xenophon
If you consider what are called the virtues in mankind, you will find their growth is assisted by education and cultivation.
The best mirror is an old friend.
Peter Nivio Zarlenga
Divide your movements into easy-to-do sections. If you fail, divide again.
To come to be you must have a vision of Being, a Dream, a Purpose, a Principle. You will become what your vision is.
Beauty is being in harmony with what you are.
Peter Nivio Zarlenga, The Orator
Respect human talent, respond to genius, recognize reality, admire truth and beauty, realize the meaning of the rare flower Reason.
How many of us are able to distinguish between the odors of noon and midnight, or of winter and summer, or of a windy spell and a still one? If man is so generally less happy in the cities than in the country, it is because all these variations and nuances of sight and smell and sound are less clearly marked and lost in the general monotony of gray walls and cement pavements.
Lin Yutang, The Importance of Li
The three great American vices seem to be efficiency, punctuality, and the desire for achievement and success. They are the things that make the Americans so unhappy and so nervous.
...by association with natures enormities, a man's heart may truly grow big also. There is a way of looking upon a landscape as a moving picture and being satisfied with nothing less big as a moving picture, a way of looking upon tropic clouds over the horizon as the backdrop of a stage and being satisfied with nothing less big as a backdrop, a way of looking upon the mountain forests as a private garden and being satisfied with nothing less as a private garden, a way of listening to the roaring waves as a concert and being satisfied with nothing less as a concert, and a way of looking upon the mountain breeze as an air-cooling system and being satisfied with nothing less as an air-cooling system. So do we become big, even as the earth and firmaments are big. Like the 'Big Man' described by Yuan Tsi (A.D. 210-263), one of China's first romanticists, we 'live in heaven and earth as our house.'
Art is both creation and recreation. Of the two ideas, I think art as recreation or as sheer play of the human spirit is more important.
Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of nonessentials.
Lin Yutang
No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.
Some great people are leaders and others are more lucky, in the right place at the right time. I'd put myself in the latter category.
Steve Wozniak
Literature could be said to be a sort of disciplined technique for arousing certain emotions.
Iris Murdoch
No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.
Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.
Moralistic is not moral. And as for truth -- well, it's like brown -- it's not in the spectrum. Truth is so generic.
Philosophy! Empty thinking by ignorant conceited men who think they can digest without eating!
In philosophy if you aren't moving at a snail's pace you aren't moving at all.
Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.
We shall be better prepared for the future if we see how terrible, how doomed the present is.
The sin of pride may be a small or a great thing in someone's life, and hurt vanity a passing pinprick, or a self-destroying or ever murderous obsession.
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