A Glimpse of Utopia

Jamel Duane Alatise Formerly Enlightened-Eloquently IG: FirstSonOfSoil | Twitter: JDAlatise

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It always comes back to the same necessity: go deep enough and there is a bedrock of truth, however hard.

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Inspiration may be a form of superconsciousness, or perhaps of subconsciousness—I wouldn’t know. But I am sure it is the antithesis of self-consciousness.

Aaron Copland (via jamelalatise)

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Poetry often enters through the window of irrelevance.

M. C. Richards

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A mind too active is no mind at all.

Theodore Roethke

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The events in our lives happen in a sequence in time, but in their significance to ourselves, they find their own order … the continuous thread of revelation.

Eudora Welty

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Words are a form of action, capable of influencing change.

Ingrid Bengis

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You need to claim the events of your life to make yourself yours.

Anne-Wilson Schaef

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What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters, compared to what lies within us.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The purpose of art is not a rarified, intellectual distillate—it is life, intensified, brilliant life.

Alain Arias–Mission

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I paint not by sight but by faith. Faith gives you sight.

Amos Ferguson (via jamelalatise)

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Why should we all use our creative power … ? Because there is nothing that makes people so generous, joyful, lively, bold and compassionate, so indifferent to fighting and the accumulation of objects and money.

Brenda Ueland (via jamelalatise)

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Every blade of grass has its Angel that bends over it and whispers, “Grow, grow.”

The Talmud

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Great improvisors are like priests. They are thinking only of their god.

Stéphane Grappelli (via jamelalatise)

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What we play is life.

Louis Armstrong

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Creativity is harnessing universality and making it flow through your eyes.

Peter Koestenbaum

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Mysore Palace (aka Amba Vilas Palace) is a historical palace in the city of Mysore. Karnataka, India.

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If you hit the wrong note, it’s the next note that determines if it’s good or bad.

Miles Davis

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