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“I could never be French, I could never become German - I shall always remain American - the essence which is in me is American mysticism just as Davies declared it when he saw those first landscapes.”

Firsts Saws Essence Landscape Mysticism

Book:My Dear Stieglitz: Letters of Marsden Hartley and Alfred Stieglitz, 1912-1915

Source: My Dear Stieglitz: Letters of Marsden Hartley and Alfred Stieglitz, 1912-1915

“Each time I saw a cliff, I wondered whether I could free solo it. My life shaped itself around the understanding that falling means I die. To break the paradigm I had to empty out my essence, rummaging for fundamentals I thought were gone forever.”

Mean Dies Fall Understanding Break Gone Forever Saws Empty Essence Fundamentals Solo Cliffs Paradigm

Author:Dean Potter

“If a man went simply by what he saw, he might be tempted to affirm that the essence of democracy is melodrama.”

Ifs Men Might Democracy Saws Essence Tempted Hairstyles Melodrama

Book:On Literature, Cultures, and Religion

Source: On Literature, Cultures, and Religion

“In Eden I "saw" that Adam or Eve probably spoke each word FOR THE FIRST TIME and that seemed wild and seemed to me that that might have brought them to some essence of language. Once I "saw" the city, I knew it was real. once I saw that a poem was a house, i knew it was real and could go back to it or else write a flurry of poems around it, both worked.”

Writing Firsts Real Might House Language Cities Saws First Time Essence Spokes Adam Eden

Author:Gregory Orr

“I watched Janis one time - we opened for her - and that's the only time I ever saw her. We opened for Jimi Hendrix. I got to stand on the side of the stage and watch him for two hours and then he died. But I got the essence before they left.”

Two Left Sides Hours Watches Saws Stage Essence Died One Time Only Time Hendrix

Author:Stevie Nicks

“His contagious conviction that our love was unique and desperate infected me with an anxious sickness; soon we would learn to treat one another with the circumspect tenderness of comrades who are amputees, for we were surrounded by the most moving images of evanesecence, fireworks, morning glories, the old, children. But the most moving of these images were the intagible relfections of ourselves we saw in one another's eyes, reflections of nothing but appearances, in a city dedicated to seeming, and, try as we might to possess the essence of each other's otherness, we would inevitably fail.”

“After the Israelites safely crossed the Red Sea, the Egyptians chased after them and were drowned. God's angels wanted to celebrate the enemy's demise. God saw this and grew angry. He said, in essence, 'Stop celebrating. For they are my children,too.”

Children Said Wanted Enemy Saws Sea Grew Angel Red Essence Angry Celebrate My Children Demise Red Sea

Book:Have a Little Faith: A True Story

Source: Have a Little Faith: A True Story

“The real achievement in discoveries... is seeing an analogy where no one saw one before... The essence of discovery is that unlikely marriage of cabbages and kings — of previously unrelated frames of reference or universes of discourse — whose union will solve the previously insoluble problem.”

Real Problem Form Science Universe Saws Seeing Achievement Solutions Discovery Essence Unions Solve Discourse Unlikely Analogies

Author:Arthur Koestler