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The poets make all the words, and therefore language is the indelible record of mankind's being.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays: Second Series (1844)
6h ago

The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions.

10h ago

It is the tension between creativity and skepticism that has produced the stunnings achievements of science. The divorce of the two produces politicians without ideas and scientists without conscience.

2d ago

One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.

4d ago

I want to feel what it feels like to make that song go. I think that's taught me to recognize when a song of my own feels right.

4d ago

We are all agreed that your theory is crazy. The question that divides us is whether it is crazy enough to have a chance of being correct.

6d ago

Since then, when I hear a song that I really love, if I have the aptitude to try and learn it, I usually do. And it's because of the same impulse. I want to feel what it feels like to make that song go.

6d ago

I want to feel what it feels like to make that song go. I think that's taught me to recognize when a song of my own feels right. The same excitement I feel about someone else's song, the desire to be moved, is intact when I'm trying to write my own.

6d ago

It is the tension between creativity and skepticism that has produced the stunning and unexpected findings of science.

1w ago

This is the new secret strategy in the arts, and it's built on the simplest thing you can imagine—namely, existing as a human being.

1w ago

Underscored — save the words that stop you in your tracks.

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