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Description: Anne Sexton quote: Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard.

Description: Anne Sexton quote: All who love have lied.

Description: Anne Sexton quote: I am crazy as hell, but I know it. And knowing it is a kind of sanity that makes the sickness worse.

Description: Anne Sexton quote: Earth, earth riding your merry-go-round toward extinction, right to the roots thickening the oceans like gravy, festering in your caves, you are becoming a latrine.

Description: Anne Sexton quote: I am stuffing your mouth with your promises and watching you vomit them out upon my face.

Description: Anne Sexton quote: To love another is something like prayer and can’t be planned, you just fall into its arms because your belief undoes your disbelief.

Description: Anne Sexton quote: Only my books anoint me, and a few friends, those who reach into my veins.

Description: Anne Sexton quote: I was spread out daily and examined for flaws.

Description: Anne Sexton quote: We all walk softly away. We would stay and be the nurse but there are too many of us and we are too worried to help. It is love that walks away and yet we have terrible mouths and soft milk hands. We worry with like. We walk away like love.

Description: Anne Sexton quote: As for me, I am a watercolor. I wash off.

Description: Anne Sexton quote: I imitate a memory of belief that I do not own.

Description: Nathaniel Hawthorne quote: Happiness has no succession of events, because it is a part of eternity;

Description: Nathaniel Hawthorne quote: Moonlight is sculpture; sunlight is painting.

Description: Nathaniel Hawthorne quote: Alas that the artist, whether in poetry or whatever other material, may not content himself with the inward enjoyment of the beautiful, but must chase the flitting mystery beyond the verge of his ethereal domain, and crush its frail being in seizing it with a material grasp.

Description: Nathaniel Hawthorne portrait and quote: I do detest all offices,—all, at least, that are held on a political tenure. And I want nothing to do with politicians. Their hearts wither away, and die out of their bodies. Their consciences are turned to india-rubber, or to some substance as black as that, and which will stretch as much.

Description: Nathaniel Hawthorne quote: In youth men are apt to write more wisely than they really know or feel; and the remainder of life may be not idly spent in realizing and convincing themselves of the wisdom which they uttered long ago.

Description: Nathaniel Hawthorne quote: So long as we love life for itself, we seldom dread the losing it. When we desire life for the attainment of an object, we recognize the frailty of its texture.

Description: Nathaniel Hawthorne quote: When the artist rose high enough to achieve the beautiful, the symbol by which he made it perceptible to mortal senses became of little value in his eyes while his spirit possessed itself in the enjoyment of the reality.

Description: Nathaniel Hawthorne quote: I have laughed, in bitterness and agony of heart, at the contrast between what I seem and what I am!

Description: Nathaniel Hawthorne quote: Love, whether newly born, or aroused from a death-like slumber, must always create a sunshine, filling the heart so full of radiance, that it overflows upon the outward world.

Description: Nathaniel Hawthorne quote: My heart was a habitation large enough for many guests, but lonely and chill, and without a household fire. I longed to kindle one! It seemed not so wild a dream,

Description: Nathaniel Hawthorne quote: Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness, without dreaming of it;

Description: Nathaniel Hawthorne quote: Life is made up of marble and mud.

Description: Nathaniel Hawthorne portrait and quote: I have not lived, but only dreamed about living.

Description: Nathaniel Hawthorne quote: What would a man do, if he were compelled to live always in the sultry heat of society, and could never bathe himself in cool solitude?

Description: Nathaniel Hawthorne quote: If mankind were all intellect, they would be continually changing, so that one age would be entirely unlike another. The great conservative is the heart, which remains the same in all ages; so that commonplaces of a thousand years' standing are as effective as ever.

Description: Nathaniel Hawthorne portrait and quote: All sorts of persons, and every individual, has a place to fill in the world, and is important in some respects, whether he chooses to be so or not.

Description: George Sand quote: We cannot tear out a single page of our lives; but we can throw the book into the fire.

Description: George Sand quote: Nous ne pouvons arracher une seule page de notre vie, mais nous pouvons jeter le livre au feu.

Description: George Sand quote: The truth is too simple: one must always get there by a complicated route.

Description: George Sand quote: Le vrai est trop simple, il faut y arriver toujours par le compliqué.

Description: George Sand quote: Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness. Know how to replace in your heart, by the happiness of those you love, the happiness that may be wanting to yourself.

Description: George Sand quote: Garde en toi le trésor de la bonté. Sache donner sans hésitation, perdre sans regret, acquérir sans lâcheté. Sache mettre dans ton coeur le bonheur de ceux que tu aimes à la place de celui qui te manquera!

Description: George Sand quote: Nothing resembles selfishness more closely than self-respect.

Description: George Sand quote: Sans qu'on y prenne garde, la littérature fait de ces miracles. Elle ressuscite la poésie des époques antérieures; et, laissant dormir dans le passé tout ce qui fut pour les intelligences du passé l'objet de justes critiques, elle nous apporte, comme un parfum oublié, les richesses méconnues d'un goût qui n'est plus à discuter, parce qu'il ne règne plus arbitrairement. L'art, quoiqu'il se pose en égoïste (l'art pour l'art), fait de la philosophie progressive sans le savoir. Il fait sa paix avec les fautes et les misères du passé, pour enregistrer, ainsi qu'en un musée, les monuments de la conquête.

Description: George Sand quote: Without our even realizing it, literature performs its miracles. It revives the poetry of former days; and, putting to rest in the past all that had been for intellectuals of the past the object of just criticisms, it brings to us, like a forgotten perfume, the unrecognized riches of a taste that is no longer open to discussion, since it no longer reigns arbitrarily. Art, although it poses as egotistical ("art for art's sake"), creates progressive philosophy without realizing it. It makes its peace with the mistakes and shortcomings of the past, to preserve, as in a museum, the monuments of its conquest.