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“I have ventured, Like little wanton boys that swim on bladders, This many summers in a sea of glory, But far beyond my depth. My high-blown pride At length broke under me, and now has left me, Weary and old with service, to the mercy Of a rude stream that must for ever hide me.”

Littles Left Boys Sea Pride Summer Glory Mercy Depth Broke Streams Length Swim Weary Rude Wanton Bladder

Author:William Shakespeare

“What do I want to express? The subject means little. The arrangement, the design, colour, shape, depth, light, space, mood, movement, balance, not one or all of these fills the bill. There is something additional, a breath that draws your breath into its breathing, a heartbeat that pounds on yours, a recognition of the oneness of all things.”

Source: Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr

“Science is Christian, not when it condemns itself to the letter of things, but when, in the infinitely little, it discovers as many mysteries and as much depth and power as in the infinitely great”

Littles Christian Mystery Letters Depth

Book:Ultramontanism: Or, The Roman Church and Modern Society

Source: Ultramontanism: Or, The Roman Church and Modern Society

“In my earlier paintings, I wanted the space between the picture plane and the spectator to be active. It was in that space, paradoxically, the painting 'took place.' Then, little by little, and to some extent deliberately, I made it go the other way, opening up an interior space... so that there was a layered, shallow depth.”

Way Littles Made Wanted Space Painting Depth Active Opening Made It Planes Shallow Interiors Spectators Space Between Opening Up Interior Space

Book:The Eye's Mind: Collected Writings 1965-2009

Source: The Eye's Mind: Collected Writings 1965-2009

“Our whole past experience is continually in our consciousness, though most of it sunk to a great depth of dimness. I think of consciousness as a bottomless lake, whose waters seem transparent, yet into which we can clearly see but a little way.”

Thinking Way Littles Whole Seems Past Water Consciousness Experience Depth Lakes Transparent Past Experiences

Book:Collected papers of Charles Sanders Peirce

Source: Collected papers of Charles Sanders Peirce