It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see. - Henry David Thoreau

To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee,

One clover, and a bee,

And revery.

The revery alone will do,

If bees are few.

- Emily Dickinson, Poems

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. He to whom the emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause and stand wrapped in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed. - Albert Einstein

Anyone who can be replaced by a machine deserves to be. - Dennis Gunton

Really we create nothing. We merely plagiarize nature. - Jean Baitaillon

Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures. - Jessamyn West

People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind. - William Butler Yeats

I remembered a story of how Bach was approached by a young admirer one day and asked, "But Papa Bach, how do you manage to think of all these new tunes?" "My dear fellow," Bach is said to have answered, according to my version, "I have no need to think of them. I have the greatest difficulty not to step on them when I get out of bed in the morning and start moving around my room." - Laurens Van der Post