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Music, art, literature, nature: in one word, beauty. I strongly believe that beauty springs from a moltitude of facts, places, sounds, emotions. It's all but a simple concept, and undoubtedly it' s not just a matter of appearance. But certainly we all need this ineffable beauty.
"Develop interest in life as you see it; in people, things, literature and music- the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself." (Henry Miller)
"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)
"I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music." (George Eliot)
"A poet ought not to pick nature's pocket. Let him borrow, and so borrow as to repay by the very act of borrowing. Examine nature accurately, but write from recollection, and trust more to the imagination than the memory." (Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
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