Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius. – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Melville brought to the task a sound knowledge of actual whaling, much curious learning in the literature of the subject, and, above all, an imagination which worked with great power upon the facts of his own experience. – Carl Clinton Van Doren
Poetry has the virtue of being able to say twice as much as prose in half the time, and the drawback, if you do not give it your full attention, of seeming to say half as much in twice the time. – Christopher Fry
I think Democrats are right. We fight for the American dream, for the environment, for privacy rights, a womans right to choose, a good public education system. – Barbara Boxer
Isnt one of your first exercises in learning how to communicate to write a description of how to tie your shoelaces? The point being that its basically impossible to use text to show that. – Donald Norman
