#apt

According to my present theme the writer of imagination would attain closest to the conditions of music not when his words are dissassociated from natural objects and specified meanings but when they are liberated from the usual quality of that meaning by transportation into another medium, the imagination. ↗

— William Carlos Williams

#imagination

Prominent Christians in Constantine's time waited to be baptized until their deathbeds lest they commit a "major"sin that couldn't be forgiven of those already baptized. Others felt anyone who did anything to avoid martyrdom were apostates had no valid subsequent ministry. ↗

— Thomas F. Madden

#forgiveness #forgiveness

[Marriage] happens as with cages: the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair of getting out. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#captivity #freedom #marriage #married-life #matrimony

Change is inevitable, progress is not. ↗

— Max McKeown

#change #improvement #life #progress #change

The measure of love is to love without measure. -attributed to Saint Augustine ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#chapter- #love

The only realism in art is of the imagination. ↗

— William Carlos Williams

#art

It felt like the first thing, but when I first started out, I got a job adapting a book by Russell Banks called 'Rule Of The Bone.' I didn't do a very good job. I didn't really know what I was doing in general, let alone how to adapt a book. ↗

— Paul Thomas Anderson

#adapting #alone #banks #bone #book

I try to construct a picture in which shapes, spaces, colors, form a set of unique relationships, independent of any subject matter. At the same time I try to capture and translate the excitement and emotion aroused in me by the impact with the original idea. ↗

— Milton Avery

#aroused #capture #colors #construct #emotion

This is an exciting time. A new chapter in our history. ↗

— John Barth

#exciting #exciting time #history #new #our

Aviation - and space travel, in particular - have always been especially captivating. ↗

— Felix Baumgartner

#aviation #been #captivating #especially #particular