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«To love is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.»
Author: Emily Dickinson (Poet) | About: Love | Keywords: Anything Else, for anything, leaves, startle, startling
«He was one of those inexplicable gifts of nature, an artist who leaps over boundaries, changes our nervous systems, creates a new language, transmits new kinds of joy to our startled senses and spirits.»
Author: Jack Kroll | About: Art, Language, Nature | Keywords: boundaries, inexplicable, leaps, nervous, startle, startled, systems, transmits
«If it can be verified, we don't need faith... Faith is for that which lies on the other side of reason. Faith is what makes life bearable, with all its tragedies and ambiguities and sudden, startling joys.»
Author: Madeleine L'Engle | About: Faith | Keywords: ambiguities, bearable, joys, Other side, side, startle, startling, sudden, The other side, tragedies, verified, verifies, verifying
«To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.»
Author: Emily Dickinson (Poet) | Keywords: Anything Else, for anything, leaves, startle, startling
«Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity.»
Author: Leonard Cohen (Novelist, Poet, Singer, Song Writer) | Keywords: Delicious, disagreeable, element, manifests, piece of work, social activity, startle, startling, subversion, subversions, subversive
«Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself, but with its subject.»
Author: John Keats (Poet) | About: Poetry | Keywords: amaze, enters, startle, unobtrusive
«Music takes us out of the actual and whispers to us dim secrets that startle our wonder as to who we are, and for what, whence, and whereto.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson (Essayist, Lecturer, Poet) | About: Music | Keywords: actual, as to, dim, dimmed, dimming, dims, music, secrets, startle, takes, The Whisper, whence, whereto, whispers, wonder
«Take the first step, and your mind will mobilize all its forces to your aid. But the first essential is that you begin. Once the battle is startled, all that is within and without you will come to your assistance.»
Author: Robert Collier | Keywords: aid, aided, aiding, assistance, battle, battled, Battle of the, battling, Begin, come, come to, essential, first, first step, first steps, forces, in force, ITS, mobilize, mobilized, mobilizes, mobilizing, once, startle, startled, step, step up, take, that is, The Battle, the first, within
«The world in general doesn't know what to make of originality; it is startled out of its comfortable habits of thought, and its first reaction is one of anger.»
Author: William Somerset Maugham (Novelist, Playwright, Writer) | About: Originality, World | Keywords: in general, originality, reaction, startle, startled
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