"Divine fires do not blaze each day, but……" — Ned Rorem
"Divine fires do not blaze each day, but an artist functions in their afterglow hoping for their recurrence."
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28 Quotes by Ned Rorem
Ned Rorem has 28 quotes on this site.
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As a lifelong pacifist, Quaker, and a gay man, I despair that gays and lesbians are expending energy trying to…
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Inspiration could be called inhaling the memory of an act never experienced.
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Sooner or later you've heard all your best friends have to say. Then comes the tolerance of real love.
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Quarrels in France strengthen a love affair, in America they end it.
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Love is a mystery which, when solved, evaporates. The same holds for music.
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Bel canto is to opera what pole-vaulting is to ballet.
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Artists, by definition innocent, don't steal. But they do borrow without giving back.
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The beautiful are shyer than the ugly, for they move in a world that does not ask for beauty.
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The same piece of music alters at each hearing. But oh, the need to repeat and repeat and repeat unchanged…
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Arguably, no artist grows up: If he sheds the perceptions of childhood, he ceases being an artist.
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Music is the sole art which evokes nostalgia for the future.
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The hardest of all the arts to speak of is music, because music has no meaning to speak of
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More Afterglow Quotes
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The key question is, no matter how much you absorb of another person, can you have absorbed so much of…
— Douglas Hofstadter
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Cold air rises from the ground as the sun goes down. The eye-burning clarity of the light intensifies. The southern rim…
— John Austin Baker
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While love is common, true love is rare, and I believe that few people are fortunate enough to experience it.…
— David Buss
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Every day a new picture is painted and framed, held up for half an hour, in such lights as the…
— Henry David Thoreau
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I think there are different kinds of happiness. We know when we're happy a lot of the time, but then…
— Ariel Gore
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And to lose the chance to see frigatebirds soaring in circles above the storm, or a file of pelicans winging…
— Theodore Roosevelt
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Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of…
— Theodore Isaac Rubin
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The water was glassy and calm, still candy-colored in the afterglow of sunset.
— Stephen King
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Why did dusk and fir-scent and the afterglow of autumnal sunsets make people say absurd things?
— Lucy Maud Montgomery
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I like my afterglow with you in motion. I measure time by how your body sways.
— Jennifer Crusie
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Let my thoughts come to you, when I am gone, like the afterglow of sunset at the margin of starry…
— Rabindranath Tagore
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It was as if the demise of the owner had lent the flat a physical void it hadn't had before.…
— Jo Nesbo
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