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“I use a special tool. I make it myself; very sharp steel point and a handle like a pencil. For me it is a pencil. Maybe I have a special talent, a feeling you might say that lets me control it, to express my ideas as though I were sketching black on white.”

Ideas Use Feelings Might Black White Special Talent Materials Tools Let Me Handle Steel Pencils Sketching Special Talents

Author:Ugo Mochi

“When chaste people need body or mind to resort to action or thought, they find steel in their muscles or knowledge in their intelligence. Theirs the diabolic vigor or the black magic of will power.”

People Needs Mind Body Action Black Magic Muscles Steel Resorts Will Power Chastity Vigor Chaste Black Magic

Author:Honore de Balzac

“Port Talbot is a steel town, where everything is covered with gray iron ore dust. Even the beach is completely littered with dust, it's just black. The sun was setting, and it was quite beautiful. The contrast was extraordinary, I had this image of a guy sitting there on this dingy beach with a portable radio, tuning in these strange Latin escapist songs like 'Brazil.' The music transported him somehow and made his world less gray.”

World Made Beautiful Guy Song Black Sun Strange Sitting Towns Extraordinary Radio Setting Settings Dust Beach Iron Latin Covered Gray Contrast Steel Port Brazil Tuning Escapists Iron Ore

Author:Terry Gilliam

“Black Poets should live--not leap From steel bridges, like the white boys do.”

Should Poetry Black White Boys Poet Bridges Leap Steel

Book:Belly song and other poems

Source: Belly song and other poems

“O wretched state! O bosom black as death! O limed soul that, struggling to be free, art more engaged! Help, angels! Make assay! Bow, stubborn knees! and, heart with strings of steel, be soft as sinews of the new-born babe!”

Heart Art Soul States Helping Black Born Struggle Angel Knees Engaged Strings Repentance Bows Steel Stubborn Wretched Bosoms Babe

Book:Hamlet: Revised Edition

Source: Hamlet: Revised Edition