A poet knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
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In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time.
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Once you have flown, you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward for there you have been, there you long to return.
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I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.
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The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far below the musician in that of invisible things.
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Experience does not ever err. It is only your judgment that errs in promising itself results which are not caused by your experiments.
Leonardo da Vinci in Notebooks
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He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast.
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Iron rusts from disue; stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.
Leonardo da Vinci in The Notebooks
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Iron rusts from disuse water loses its purity from stagnation and in cold weather becomes frozen even so does inaction sap the vigors of the mind.
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For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and there you will long to return.
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