Marturii Quotes & Sayings

Most artists are brought to their vocation when their own nascent gifts are awakened by the work of a master. That is to say, most artists are converted to art by art itself. Finding one's voice isn't just an emptying and purifying oneself of the words of others but an adopting and embracing of filiations, communities, and discourses. Inspiration could be called inhaling the memory of an act never experienced. Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void but out of chaos. Any artist knows these truths, no matter how deeply he or she submerges that knowing. — Lewis Hyde

There may be some sins of which a man cannot speak,
but there is no sin which the blood of Christ cannot wash away. — Charles Spurgeon

Under the new conditions of perfect comfort and security, that restless energy, that with us is strength, would become weakness. — H.G.Wells

Why do old men wake so early? Is it to have one longer day? — Ernest Hemingway,

No house is big enough for the rule of two women. — Marion Zimmer Bradley

Every wolf in the world now howled a prothalamion outside the window as she freely gave him the kiss she owed him.
What big teeth you have!
She saw how his jaw began to slaver and the room was full of the clamour of the forest's Liebestod but the wise child never flinched, even as he answered: All the better to eat you with.
The girl burst out laughing; she knew she was nobody's meat. — Angela Carter

I suspect that in our loathing of totalitarianism, there is infused a good deal of admiration for its efficiency. — T. S. Eliot