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You shall create beauty not to excite the senses but to give sustenance to the soul.
We are guilty of many errors and many faults, but our worst crime is abandoning the children, neglecting the fountain of life. Many of the things we need can wait. The child cannot. Right now is the time his bones are being formed, his blood is being made, and his senses are being developed. To him we cannot answer ‘Tomorrow,’ his name is today.
Love beauty; it is the shadow of God on the universe
I feel my heart melting
In the mildness like candles:
My veins are slow oil
And not wine,
And I feel my life fleeing
Hushed and gentle like the gazelle.
Love that stammers, that stutters, is apt to be the love that loves best.
Let the earth look at me, and bless me, for now I am fecund and sacred, like the palms and the furrows.
Speech is our second possession, after the soul-and perhaps we have no other possession in this world.
Writing tends to cheer me; it always soothes my spirit and blesses me with the gift of an innocent, tender, childlike day. It is the sensation of having spent a few hours in my homeland, with my customs, free whims, my total freedom.
What the soul is to the body, so is the artist to his people,
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