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And I tell them that it is not just about beauty because beauty doesn't pay debts. But do they listen? Pg13

— Nii Ayikwei Parkes

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They begin in my head, triggered by things that happen outside my head – usually an image or a sound, those are my primary stimuli – but my creation begins in sound.

When one starts on the path to evil good counsel sounds like a joke. Pg130

I’m a patient and humble reader and I like to learn and nurture. I don’t know what that says about what to expect from the course, but good poems will be written.

The brave man displays his courage and strength on the battlefield, not at home. Pg107

They say nothing is other than what you see, but it is also true that nothing is other than what you don't see. Pg168

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Beautiful objects are wrought by study through effort, but ugly things are reaped automatically without toil.

Democritus Freeman (1948)

True beauty dwells in deep retreats,
Whose veil is unremoved
Till heart with heart in concord beats,
And the lover is beloved.

William Wordsworth

The great artists are the ones who dare to entitle to beauty things so natural that when they're seen afterward, people say: Why did I never realize before that this too was beautiful?

André Gide The Immoralist (1902)

Beauty itself doth of itself persuade
The eyes of men without an orator.

William Shakespeare The Rape of Lucrece (1594)

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