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“In fact, the influence of Schoenberg may be overwhelming on his followers, but the significance of his art is to be identified with influences of a more subtle kind - not the system, but the aesthetic, of his art. I am quite conscious of the fact that my Chansons madécasses are in no way Schoenbergian, but I do not know whether I ever should have been able to write them had Schoenberg never written.”

Knows Way Should Writing Kind May Has Beens Art Facts Able Written Influence Conscious Art Is Should Have Mad Subtle Significance Followers Overwhelming Aesthetic Should Have Been Schoenberg

Author:Maurice Ravel

“A man should have any number of little aims about which he should be conscious and for which he should have names, but he should have neither name for, nor consciousness concerning the main aim of his life.”

Men Inspirational Should Littles Wisdom Names Numbers Consciousness Conscious Should Have Aim Intelligence Inspirational Goal Setting

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Butler (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Butler (Illustrated)

“Hymns should have unity, graduation and mutual dependence in the thoughts, a conscious progress, a sense of completeness and be easily understood.”

Should Progress Conscious Understood Should Have Unity Mutual Dependence Hymns Completeness

Author:James Montgomery

“As biological organisms made of matter, we are subject to the laws of physics and biology: as conscious persons who create our own history we are free to decide what that history shall be. Without science, we should have no notion of equality; without art, no notion of liberty.”

Should Persons Art Made Matter Law Liberty Subjects Conscious Should Have Notion Physics Biology Organisms Laws Of Physics

Author:W. H. Auden

“You perceive, now, that these things are all impossible except in a dream. You perceive that they are pure and puerile insanities, the silly creations of an imagination that is not conscious of its freaks - in a word, that they are a dream, and you the maker of it. The dream-marks are all present; you should have recognized them earlier.”

Should Dream Imagination Impossible Creation Pure Conscious Should Have Mark Silly Perceive Insanity Makers Freak

Book:The Mysterious Stranger: and Other Stories

Source: The Mysterious Stranger: and Other Stories

“I'm very conscious of the fact that every line should have a cadence to it. It should contribute to the progress of the poem. And that the ending of the line is a way of turning the reader's attention back into the interior of the poem.”

Way Should Facts Lines Attention Progress Reader Conscious Should Have Interiors Cadence

Author:Billy Collins

“How could you give me life, and take from me all the inappreciable things that raise it from the state of conscious death? Where are the graces of my soul? Where are the sentiments of my heart? What have you done, oh, Father, What have you done with the garden that should have bloomed once, in this great wilderness here? Said louisa as she touched her heart.”

Giving Should Heart Said Soul States Done Father Grace My Heart Conscious Garden Should Have Give Me Raises My Soul Touched Wilderness Sentiments

Book:Hard Times

Source: Hard Times