Poetry is a beautiful way of spoiling prose, and the laborious art of exchanging plain sense for harmony. – Horace Walpole Category: Art
Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art. – Thomas Hardy Category: Art
Were learning as we go. Were a lot smarter this time. We understand what it takes to mobilize away from the threat of a hurricane. – Ray Nagin Category: Learning
Of all Gods gifts to the sighted man, color is holiest, the most divine, the most solemn. – John Ruskin Category: Color
The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjects – making it possible… to see a new beauty in what is vanishing. – Susan Sontag Category: Beauty
