How can you say that modern art is ugly,when you worship the Lord in a building painted like this?
No honey for me, if it comes with a bee.
May I write words more naked than flesh, stronger than bone, more resilient than sinew, sensitive than nerve.
When I look on you a moment, then I can speak no more, but my tongue falls silent, and at once a delicate flame courses beneath my skin, and with my eyes I see nothing, and my ears hum, and a wet sweat bathes me and a trembling seizes me all over.
You may forget but let me tell you this: someone in some future time will think of us
Beauty endures only for as long as it can be seen; goodness, beautiful today, will remain so tomorrow.
What cannot be said will be wept.
No hoary falsehood shall be a truth to me; no stifling dogma shall encramp my pen!
What are the conditions of the creative attitude, of seeing and responding, of being aware and being sensitive to what one is aware of? First of all it requires the capacity to be puzzled. Children still have the capacity to be puzzled.
Excitement in education and student productivity, the ability to get a result that you want from students, go together and cannot be separated.
I think people can stand to take themselves just a little less seriously. I'm fighting the war against pretension.