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The artist is willing to give all his or her strength and life to probing with blunt instruments those same secrets no one can describe any way but with the instruments’ faint tracks.
—Annie Dillard

  Fear collides with our most conservative self and allows us to stop before we try, dismiss before we think, mock before we imagine.
—Carol Lloyd
  Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
—Oscar Wilde
  I insist on the primacy of beauty, but I don't believe that beauty is dumb. it unifies our experiences, mental and physical, and its satisfactions are often hard won.
—Dan Cameron
  What does not change is the will to change.
—Charles Olson
  "Whom do you write for?" Gertrude Stein was asked. "Myself and strangers," she replied.
  Whole sight; or all the rest is desolation.
—John Fowles