 Muse in the Morning |
Time for a break from poetry…in order to create some art.
| The American ideal, after all, is that everyone should be as much alike as possible.
–James Baldwin |
 Masque 5 |
Tag: Muse in the Morning
Jan 26 2011
Muse in the Morning
Jan 24 2011
Muse in the Morning
| Muse in the Morning |
Time for a break from poetry…in order to create some art.
| Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be.”
–Ralph Waldo Emerson |
 Masque 3 |
Jan 21 2011
Muse in the Morning
| Muse in the Morning |
Time for a break from poetry…in order to create some art.
| Children are entitled to their otherness, as anyone is; and when we reach them, as we sometimes do, it is generally on a point of sheer delight, to us so astonishing, but to them so natural.
–Alastair Reid |
 Pink and Blue 5 |
Jan 18 2011
Muse in the Morning
| Muse in the Morning |
Time for a break from poetry…in order to create some art.
| “To be one’s self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity.”
–Irving Wallace |
 Pink and Blue 4 |
Jan 14 2011
Muse in the Morning
| Muse in the Morning |
Time for a break from poetry…in order to create some art.
| Morality is a test of our conformity rather than our integrity.
–Jane Rule |
 Four Winds 5 |
Jan 13 2011
Muse in the Morning
| Muse in the Morning |
Time for a break from poetry…in order to create some art.
| In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.
–Peter Ustinov |
 Four Winds 4 |
Jan 12 2011
Muse in the Morning
| Muse in the Morning |
Time for a break from poetry…in order to create some art.
| If religion were true, its followers would not try to bludgeon their young into an artificial conformity; but would merely insist on their unbending quest for truth, irrespective of artificial backgrounds or practical consequences.
–H. P. Lovecraft |
 Four Winds 3 |
Jan 11 2011
Muse in the Morning
| Muse in the Morning |
Time for a break from poetry…in order to create some art.
| Has there ever been a society which has died of dissent? Several have died of conformity in our lifetime.
–Jacob Bronowski |
 Four Winds 2 |
Jan 10 2011
Muse in the Morning
| Muse in the Morning |
Time for a break from poetry…in order to create some art.
| Group conformity scares the pants off me because it’s so often a prelude to cruelty towards anyone who doesn’t want to – or can’t – join the Big Parade.
–Bette Midler |
 Four Winds |
Jan 07 2011
Muse in the Morning
| Muse in the Morning |
Time for a break from poetry…in order to create some art.
| Fear, conformity, immorality: these are heavy burdens. They drain us of creative energy. And when we are drained of creative energy, we do not create. We procreate, but we do not create.
–David McCallum |
 Stoic 2 |
Dec 31 2010
Muse in the Morning
| Muse in the Morning |
Time for a break from poetry…in order to create some art.
| Armageddon is not around the corner. This is only what the people of violence want us to believe. The complexity and diversity of the world is the hope for the future.
–Michael Palin |
 Hollow 4 |
Dec 30 2010
Muse in the Morning
| Muse in the Morning |
Time for a break from poetry…in order to create some art.
| Allow the diversity to exist. There is nothing wrong with it. Hell, we put up with the religious right-we can put up with transgendered human beings.
–Jessica Lange |
 Hollow 3 |