More than most things, something that inspires me to write is a deep and overwhelming feeling of an injustice occurring, something we could readily change, something we could see through to the end and make anew. Recently a friend of mine mentioned his love of Bilal after having seen him play live, which I know was a great show considering Bilal’s amazing talent. Truly, the man’s talent is beyond what can be articulated clearly to anyone who hasn’t heard his music and voice. Nonetheless, I realized something, which is apparently THE issue of artists and may remain so evermore.
By Holly Lewis
No words suffice in duplicating in any recognizable fashion the beauty of this world.
By Obi Okorougo and Balthasar Gracian
Prize Intensity more than Extent.
Excellence resides in quality not in quantity. The best is always few and rare: much lowers value. Even among men giants are commonly the real dwarfs. Some reckon books by the thickness, as if they were written to try the brawn more than the brain. Extent alone never rises above mediocrity: it is the misfortune of universal geniuses that in attempting to be at home everywhere, are so nowhere. Intensity gives eminence, and rises to the heroic in matters sublime.
I will not mince words with you.
You shall find me the only speaker of frank language in your company.
Its heaviness will unravel you
or wind you, as truth well