From William Blake: “What is now proved was once only imagined.”
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Quote of the day 12/24/24
From William Blake: “If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, Infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro’ narrow chinks of his cavern.”
Quote of the day 11/22/24
From Gaston Bachelard: “All readers who have a certain passion for reading, nurture and repress, through reading, the desire to become a writer.”
Quote of the day 11/19/24
From Gaston Bachelard: “A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.”
Quote of the day 11/17/24
From Gaston Bachelard: “Daydreams transport the dreamer outside the immediate world to a world that bears the mark of infinity.”
Quote of the day 11/15/24
From Gaston Bachelard: “Poetry is one of the destinies of speech… One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language.”
Quote of the day 11/01/24
From Plutarch: “Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks.”
Quote of the day 09/28/24
From Rabindranath Tagore: “The sparrow is sorry for the peacock at the burden of its tail.”
Quote of the day 09/27/24
From Rabindranath Tagore: “The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.”
Quote of the day 09/23/24
From Rabindranath Tagore: “A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.”
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