"An artist's flair is sometimes worth a scientist's brains" — Anton Chekhov

My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk

Source: Letters of John Keats (1817-1820)

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul

Source: The Spectator, no. 215 (1711)

The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese

Source: Alarms and Discursions, Cheese (1910)

Four seasons fill the measure of the year; there are four seasons in the mind of man

Source: The Human Seasons (1818)

Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known

Source: The Soul of Man Under Socialism (1891)

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body

Source: The Tatler, no. 147 (1710)

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