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You must show industry, generosity, happiness and hope. You must plant the seed, confident that it will endure.
—Hopi elder

  “I don’t see how you’ve gotten through this period! Whenever you’re in distress, you must go to the sun and the sea.”
— The second-best-astrologer in New York to Robert Raushenberg, prompting his move to Key West
  If nothing sensuous is present no art is present. Art is close dangerous play with unconscious forces.
—Iris Murdoch
 

if we do not stop killing
the other in ourselves
the self we hate
in others
soon we shall all lie
in the same direction
—Audre Lorde

  Beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror we're still just able to bear
—Rainer Maria Rilke
 

The truth is more important that the facts.
—Frank Lloyd Wright

  I write from absolute inner necessity, responding to my location in time and place, trying to find a language equal to that.
—Muriel Rukeyser