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“She said,
When you see these horrible images why do you stay with them?
Why keep watching? Why not go away? I was amazed.
Go away where? I said.”
― Anne Carson, Glass, Irony and God

“You want to see my hands?
As empty now as at the first note.
Or was the point always
to continue without a sign?”
― Louise Glück, The Wild Iris

“If you wish to learn and appreciate something worth while, then love to be unknown and considered as nothing. Truly to know and despise self is the best and most perfect counsel. To think of oneself as nothing, and always to think well and highly of others is the best and most perfect wisdom.”
― Thomas à Kempis, The Imitation of Christ

“Creativity requires a state of grace. So many things are required for it to succeed—stimulus and composure, inner peace and a kind of bitter-sweet excitement.”
― Magda Szabó, The Door