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“The most exciting rhythms seem unexpected and complex, the most beautiful melodies simple and inevitable.”
“How obvious it is now —the gift you gave him. All those letters, they were you … All those beautiful powerful words, they were you! … The voice from the shadows, that was you … You always loved me!”
“In the increasingly convincing darkness
The words become palpable, like a fruit
That is too beautiful to eat.”
“
… nor till the autocrats among us can be
”literalists of
the imagination” — above
insolence and triviality and can present
for inspection, imaginary gardens with real toads
in them, shall we have
it.
“A poet can write about a man slaying a dragon, but not about a man pushing a button that releases a bomb.”
“Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.”
“Fairy tales do not give a child his first idea of bogey. What fairy tales give the child is his first clear idea of the possible defeat of bogey. The baby has known the dragon intimately ever since he had an imagination. What the fairy tale provides for him is a St. George to kill the dragon.”
“I turned silences and nights into words. What was unutterable, I wrote down. I made the whirling world stand still.”
“My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.”
“When you read, the world really did change. He understood this now. You saw parts of the world you never knew existed. Books were in the world; the world was in books.”
(via aao-lit)
Lloyd McNeill, Admit That There Is Enough Room in the World for All Hands to Work Side-by-Side, 1973, serigraph on paper, 29 7/8 x 22 in., Equal Opportunity is the Law Portfolio, via Smithsonian American Art Museum
“The latch-key which opens into the inner chambers of my consciousness fits, as I have sufficient reason to believe, the private apartments of a good many other people’s thoughts. The longer we live, the more we find we are like other persons.”
“Women are not inherently passive or peaceful. We’re not inherently anything but human.”
“How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!”
“… let fortune’s bubbles rise and fall …”
