“Fools, art is a heavy task, more heavy than gold crowns; it's far more difficult to match firm words than armies, they're disciplined troops, unconquered, to be placed in rhythm, the mind's most mighty foe, and not disperse in air. I'd give, believe me, a whole land for one good song, for I know well that only words, that words alone, like the high mountains, have no fear of age or death.” KnowsGivingMindBelieveWellsArtWholeAgeSongDifficultAirLandFoolMountainArt IsTasksGoldArmyHeavyRhythmFirmTroopsBelieve In MeCrownsNo FearFoeHave No Fear Book:the Odyssey a Modern Sequel Source: the Odyssey a Modern Sequel
“All earthly suns have their spots: the fair world itself has its wilderness. We cannot love the whole of most lovely things: but Christ Jesus is gold without alloy-light without darkness- glory without cloud. 'Yea, He is altogether lovely.'” WorldWholeLightJesusChristDarknessSunFocusGloryFairsGoldCloudsLovelySpotsWildernessLovely Things Book:Morning and Evening Source: Morning and Evening
“On the whole, however, the critic is far less of a professional faultfinder than is sometimes imagined. He is first of all a virtue-finder, a singer of praise. He is not concerned with getting rid of dross except in so far as it hides the gold. In other words, the destructive side of criticism is purely a subsidiary affair. None of the best critics have been men of destructive minds. They are like gardeners whose business is more with the flowers than with the weeds.” MenMindFirstsHas BeensSometimesWholeSidesVirtueFlowerConcernedCriticismGoldPraiseCriticsAffairSingersDestructiveWeedGardenerDross Author:Robert Wilson Lynd
“Investors, monarchies, and parliamentarians devised methods to control the processes of wealth accumulation and the power that came with it, but the ideology behind gold fever mobilized settlers to cross the Atlantic to an unknown fate. Subjugating entire societies and civilizations, enslaving whole countries, and slaughtering people village by village did not seem too high a price to pay, nor did it appear inhumane. The systems of colonization were modern and rational, but its ideological basis was madness.” PeopleCountryWholeSeemsProcessWealthPayBehindsFateModernCivilizationCrossesGoldBasesMadnessMethodRationalIdeologyVillageInvestorsAccumulationMonarchyFeverIdeologicalColonizationSettlersInhumane Author:Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz