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When you finish a poem, it clicks shut like the top of a jewel box, but prose is endless. I haven't experienced an awful lot of clicking shut! ↗

— Kenneth Koch

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It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him. ↗

— J. R. R. Tolkien

#does #dragon #him #leave #live

For us, universal values such as justice, morality and peace cannot be disputed and it is for this reason that we pursue the restoration of historical truth. ↗

— Robert Kocharian

#disputed #historical #historical truth #justice #morality

You can't lose a game in which you're not even competing. ↗

— Robert Kocharian

#even #game #lose #which #you

Find fault with thyself rather than with others. ↗

— Ieyasu Tokugawa

#find #others #rather #than #thyself

Germany's fate is decided first and foremost in Europe. Reconciliation and cooperation in Europe have brought us freedom, peace and prosperity. Who would have dared to believe so much 50 years ago? ↗

— Horst Koehler

#believe #brought #cooperation #dared #decided

To teach a child an instrument without first giving him preparatory training and without developing singing, reading and dictating to the highest level along with the playing is to build upon sand. ↗

— Zoltan Kodaly

#build #child #developing #dictating #first

Let us take our children seriously! Everything else follows from this... only the best is good enough for a child. ↗

— Zoltan Kodaly

#child #children #else #enough #everything

We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound. ↗

— Zoltan Kodaly

#book #educated #imagining #music #read

I would advise my young colleagues, the composers of symphonies, to drop in sometimes at the kindergarten, too. It is there that it is decided whether there will be anybody to understand their works in twenty years' time. ↗

— Zoltan Kodaly

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