"Is there no room for art in..." - Quote by Swami Vivekananda
Is there no room for art in the spoken language? What is the use of creating an unnatural language to the exclusion of the natural one?
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“The power of purity-it is a definite power.”
“Practice makes us what we shall be.”
“We do not look at our own faults; the eyes do not see themselves, they see the eyes of everybody else. We human beings are very slow to recognise our own weakness, our own faults, so long as we can lay the blame upon somebody else.”
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“The more syllables a euphemism has, the further divorced from reality it is.”
“Life is tons of discipline. Your first discipline is your vocabulary; then your grammar and your punctuation Then, in your exuberance and bounding energy you say you're going to add to that. Then you add rhyme and meter. And your delight is in that power.”
“If lawyers are disbarred and clergymen defrocked, doesn't it follow that electricians can be delighted, musicians denoted?”
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“I stay out of politics because if I begin thinking too much about politics, I'll probably... drop writing children's books and become a political cartoonist again.”
“Once out of nature I shall never takeMy bodily form from any natural thing,But such a form as Grecian goldsmiths make”
“Light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not make it beautiful.”