“The man who tells the tale if he has a tale worth telling will know exactly what he is about and this business of the artist as a sort of starry-eyed inspired creature, dancing along, with his feet two or three feet above the surface of the earth, not really knowing what sort of prints he's leaving behind him, is nothing like the truth.” IfsKnowsMenTwoEarthArtistThreeBehindsKnowingFeetHe ManCreaturesDancingInspiredLeavingSurfaceTalesPrint Book:Lord of the Flies Source: Lord of the Flies
“The moment the doctrine of the immortality is separately taught, man is already fallen. In the flowing of love, in the adoration of humility, there is no question of continuance. No inspired man ever asks this question, or condescends to these evidences. For the soul is true to itself, and the man in whom it is shed abroad cannot wander from the present, which is infinite, to a future which would be finite.” MenSoulMomentsWould BeReligionAsksHumilityTaughtHe ManEvidenceInfiniteInspiredDoctrineWanderImmortalityFallenShedFiniteAdorationContinuance Book:Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson: (A Modern Library E-Book) Source: Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson: (A Modern Library E-Book)
“As long as the artist invents and is inspired, he remains in a constrained state of mind, at least for the purpose of communication. He then wants to say everything, which is the wrong tendency of young geniuses or the right prejudice of old bunglers. Thus, he fails to recognize the value and dignity of self-restraint, which is indeed for both the artist and the man the first and the last, the most necessary and the highest goal.” MenWantMindFirstsLongSelfStatesLastsYoungPurposeArtistValuesGoalFailingHe ManCommunicationGeniusHighestDignityPrejudiceRemainsInspiredTendenciesState Of MindRestraintSelf Restraint Author:Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
“"eL Seed" was inspired by the French play Le Cid by Pierre Corneille. It was seeing "Le Cid" coming from the Arabic name "el sayed," which means "the master, the man." So I called myself like that because I was 16; I said, "Yes, I'm the man." That's how it started.” MenMeanSaidPlayNamesSeeingHe ManMastersInspiredSeeds Author:eL Seed