“When you are describing,A shape, or sound, or tint;Don’t state the matter plainly,But put it in a hint;And learn to look at all things,With a sort of mental squint.”

– Charles Lutwidge Dodgson –

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“The process of writing has something infinite about it.  Even though it is interrupted each night, it is one single notation.”

– Elias Canetti –

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“All my best thoughts were stolen by the ancients.”

– Ralph Waldo Emerson –

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“Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.  The chasm is never completely bridged.  We all have the conviction, perhaps illusory, that we have much more to say than appears on the paper. ”

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“A writer’s mind seems to be situated partly in the solar plexus and partly in the head.”

– Ethel Wilson –

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“It is part of my creed that the only poetry is history, could we tell it right. ”

– Thomas Carlyle –

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“The dead hand has too long hampered the freedom of the living.”

– James Robertson –

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“A pessimist sees only the dark side of the clouds, and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides, and shrugs; an optimist doesn’t see the clouds at all – he’s walking on them. ”

– Leonard Louis Levinson –

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“Nursing is an art:  and if it is to be made an art, it requires an exclusive devotion as hard a preparation, as any painter’s or sculptor’s work; for what is the having to do with dead canvas or dead… Continue reading →

“Those of us who consider ourselves to be somehow involved in the birthing of a new age, should discover Gaia as well. The idea of Gaia may facilitate the task of converting destructive human activities to constructive and cooperative behavior.… Continue reading →