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If music and sweet poetry agree.
If music and sweet poetry agree.
Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.
Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.
Feminist art is not some tiny creek running off the great river of real art. It is not some crack read more
Feminist art is not some tiny creek running off the great river of real art. It is not some crack in an otherwise flawless stone. It is, quite spectacularly I think, art which is not based on the subjugation of one half of the species. It is art which will take the great human themes --love, death, heroism, suffering, history itself --and render them fully human. It may also, though perhaps our imaginations are so mutilated now that we are incapable even of the ambition, introduce a new theme, one as great and as rich as those others --should we call it "joy"?.
About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.
About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.
Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow that talent to the dark place where it leads.
Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow that talent to the dark place where it leads.
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.
Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.
Country music is three chords and the truth.
Country music is three chords and the truth.
The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge.
The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge.
