Scimonetti Quotes & Sayings

How is it that artists keep their powers of perception even in the days when life darkens? he asked himself. Thinking about it and taking as his model Grandfather, an artist in religion who had given to its study the devotion and the hours of discipline that a violinist devotes to his instrument, he thought that their perception was born of the faculty of wonder, deepening to meditation and to penetrating sight and so strong that it could last out a lifetime. Grandfather wondered, all day and every day, at the wisdom of God and the beauty of the world, and Ferranti had wondered at the waste and pain and frustration of life. — Elizabeth Goudge

Change your 'Nafs', change the world. — Nouman Ali Khan

One might almost say that works of literature are like artesian wells, the deeper the suffering, the higher they rise.) — Marcel Proust

No matter how many rainbows you see, the last one you saw always seems the best. — Jason Pinnington

This is why there is poetry. For days like these. — Paula McLain