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Small: If in my youth I had realized that the sustaining splendour of beauty of with which I was in love would one da
"If in my youth I had realized that the sustaining splendour of beauty of with which I was in love would one day flood back into my heart, there to ignite a flame that would torture me without end, how gladly would I have put out the light in my eyes"
Michelangelo, Artist
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Small: I live in sin, to kill myself I live no longer my life my own, but sins my good is given to me by heaven, my e
"I live in sin, to kill myself I live; no longer my life my own, but sin's; my good is given to me by heaven, my evil by myself, by my free will, of which I am deprived"
Michelangelo, Artist
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Small: I live and love in Gods peculiar light
"I live and love in God's peculiar light"
Michelangelo, Artist
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Small: I hope that I may always desire more than I can accomplish
"I hope that I may always desire more than I can accomplish"
Michelangelo, Artist
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Small: I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all
"I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all"
Michelangelo, Artist
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Small: I cannot live under pressures from patrons, let alone paint
"I cannot live under pressures from patrons, let alone paint"
Michelangelo, Artist
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Small: I am still learning
"I am still learning"
Michelangelo, Artist
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Small: I am a poor man and of little worth, who is laboring in that art that God has given me in order to extend my l
"I am a poor man and of little worth, who is laboring in that art that God has given me in order to extend my life as long as possible"
Michelangelo, Artist
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Small: Genius is eternal patience
"Genius is eternal patience"
Michelangelo, Artist
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Small: Faith in oneself is the best and safest course
"Faith in oneself is the best and safest course"
Michelangelo, Artist
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Small: Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it
"Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it"
Michelangelo, Artist
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Small: Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial sour
"Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come"
Michelangelo, Artist
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Small: The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short but in setting our ai
"The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark"
Michelangelo, Artist
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Small: The best of artists has no conception that the marble alone does not contain within itself
"The best of artists has no conception that the marble alone does not contain within itself"
Michelangelo, Artist
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Small: The best artist has that thought alone Which is contained within the marble shell The sculptors hand can only
"The best artist has that thought alone Which is contained within the marble shell; The sculptor's hand can only break the spell To free the figures slumbering in the stone"
Michelangelo, Artist
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Small: My soul can find no staircase to Heaven unless it be through Earths loveliness
"My soul can find no staircase to Heaven unless it be through Earth's loveliness"
Michelangelo, Artist
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Small: Many believe - and I believe - that I have been designated for this work by God. In spite of my old age, I do
"Many believe - and I believe - that I have been designated for this work by God. In spite of my old age, I do not want to give it up; I work out of love for God and I put all my hope in Him"
Michelangelo, Artist
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Small: Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish
"Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish"
Michelangelo, Artist
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Small: It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand
"It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand"
Michelangelo, Artist
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Small: It is necessary to keep ones compass in ones eyes and not in the hand, for the hands execute, but the eye judg
"It is necessary to keep one's compass in one's eyes and not in the hand, for the hands execute, but the eye judges"
Michelangelo, Artist
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Small: I stop wanting what I am looking for, looking for it
Antonio Porchia
"I stop wanting what I am looking for, looking for it"
Antonio Porchia, Poet
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Small: I have been my own disciple and my own master. And I have been a good disciple but a bad master
Antonio Porchia
"I have been my own disciple and my own master. And I have been a good disciple but a bad master"
Antonio Porchia, Poet
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Small: He who goes step by step always finds himself level with a step
Antonio Porchia
"He who goes step by step always finds himself level with a step"
Antonio Porchia, Poet
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Small: He who does not know how to create should not know
Antonio Porchia
"He who does not know how to create should not know"
Antonio Porchia, Poet
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Small: God has given a great deal to man, but man would like something from man
Antonio Porchia
"God has given a great deal to man, but man would like something from man"
Antonio Porchia, Poet
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Small: Flowers are without hope. Because hope is tomorrow and flowers have no tomorrow
Antonio Porchia
"Flowers are without hope. Because hope is tomorrow and flowers have no tomorrow"
Antonio Porchia, Poet
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Small: Certainties are arrived at only on foot
Antonio Porchia
"Certainties are arrived at only on foot"
Antonio Porchia, Poet
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Small: Will power is only the tensile strength of ones own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce
"Will power is only the tensile strength of one's own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce"
Cesare Pavese, Poet
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Small: The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten
"The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten"
Cesare Pavese, Poet
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Small: The only joy in the world is to begin
"The only joy in the world is to begin"
Cesare Pavese, Poet
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Small: The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped
"The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped"
Cesare Pavese, Poet
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Small: You do not see the river of mourning because it lacks one tear of your own
Antonio Porchia
"You do not see the river of mourning because it lacks one tear of your own"
Antonio Porchia, Poet
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Small: What we pay for with our lives never costs too much
Antonio Porchia
"What we pay for with our lives never costs too much"
Antonio Porchia, Poet
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Small: Truth has very few friends and those few are suicides
Antonio Porchia
"Truth has very few friends and those few are suicides"
Antonio Porchia, Poet
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Small: Those who gave away their wings are sad not to see them fly
Antonio Porchia
"Those who gave away their wings are sad not to see them fly"
Antonio Porchia, Poet
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Small: They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own
Antonio Porchia
"They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own"
Antonio Porchia, Poet
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Small: The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies
"The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies"
Cesare Pavese, Poet
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Small: One stops being a child when one realizes that telling ones trouble does not make it any better
"One stops being a child when one realizes that telling one's trouble does not make it any better"
Cesare Pavese, Poet
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Small: One must look for one thing only, to find many
"One must look for one thing only, to find many"
Cesare Pavese, Poet
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Small: One does not kill oneself for love of a woman, but because love - any love - reveals us in our nakedness, our
"One does not kill oneself for love of a woman, but because love - any love - reveals us in our nakedness, our misery, our vulnerability, our nothingness"
Cesare Pavese, Poet
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