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Dream as if you’ll live forever. Live as if you’ll die today. Whatever a poet writes with enthusiasm and a divine inspiration is very fine. Earliest reference to the madness or divine inspiration of poets. Reflect upon your present blessings - of which every man has many - no on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some. Genius is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration. The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him with his friendship. We found Matisse living in a small house, with a magnificent, sweeping view beyond his vegetable garden. In one room there was a cage with a lot of fluttering birds. The place was covered with paintings, most of them obviously new ones. I marveled at his production and I asked him, "What is your inspiration?" I grow artichokes, he said. His eyes smiled at my surprise and he went on to explain: "Every morning I go into the garden and discover new combinations of colors and fantastic patterns. I study them. They inspire me. Then I go back to the studio and paint. We don’t know when our name came into being or how some distant ancestor acquired it. We don’t understand our name at all; we don’t know its history and yet we bear it with exalted fidelity. We merge with it, we like it, we are ridiculously proud of it, as if we had thought if up ourselves in a moment of brilliant inspiration. Good manners are like traffic rules for society. The first bowl sleekly moistened throat and lips. The second banished all my loneliness. The third expelled the dullness from my mind, sharpening inspiration gained from all the books I‘ve read. The fourth brought forth light perspiration, dispersing a lifetime’s troubles through my pores. There is no end to what you can accomplish if (or when) you don’t care who gets the credit. |
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