–Ariana Dancu
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Poetry
444 – “Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear; the strength so strong mere force is feebleness: the truth more first than sun, more last than star.”
–e e Cummings [See Source Notes for entire poem]
361 – “The New Colossus”
Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,
With conquering limbs astride from land to land;
Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand
A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame
Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name
Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand
Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command
The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.
‘Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!’ cries she
With silent lips. ‘Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!’
–Emma Lazarus
345 – “Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.”
–Amy Lowell
135 – “It was rather beautiful: the way he put her insecurities to sleep. The way he dove into her eyes and starved all the fears and tasted all the dreams she kept coiled beneath her bones.”
– Christopher Poindexter (more…)
117 – “Please don’t make the mistake of thinking the arts and sciences are at odds with one another. That is a recent, stupid, and damaging idea. You don’t have to be unscientific to make beautiful art, to write beautiful things.”
– Tim Minchin
113 – “Bring me your suffering. The rattle roar of broken bones. Bring me the riot in your heart. Angry, wild and raw. Bring it all. I am not afraid of the dark.”
– Mia Hollow
111 – “If you wou’d not be forgotten as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth reading, or do things worth the writing.”
– Benjamin Franklin
109 – “I closed my mouth and spoke to you in a hundred silent ways.”
– Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi [See Source Notes for full poem]
105 – “Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
– T S Eliot