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61. “It is only the impossible that is possible for God. He has given over the possible to the mechanics of matter and the autonomy of his creatures.”

Simone Weil

Divinity, Impossibility, Creation, Free Will, Spiritual Paradox, Divine Nature

62. “Everything which originates from pure love is lit with the radiance of beauty.”

Simone Weil

Love, Beauty, Purity, Creation, Spiritual Insight, Aesthetic Philosophy

63. “Creation is an act of love and it is perpetual.”

Simone Weil

Creation, Love, Divinity, Continuity, Existence, Spiritual Philosophy

64. “The Lord took twice the time making thee, Alvin Smith, cause it took that long to put the mischief in.”

Orson Scott Card

Creation, Individuality, Mischief, Divine Humor, Character, Uniqueness

65. “The Maker is the one who is part of what he makes.”

Orson Scott Card

Creation, Identity, Art, Philosophy, Craftsmanship, Divine Metaphor

66. “A work of art is never finished. It is merely abandoned.”

E.M. Forster

Art, Creation, Abandonment, Process, Artistic Philosophy, Perfectionism

67. “The people I admire most are those who are sensitive and want to create something or discover something, and do not see life in terms of power.”

E.M. Forster

Sensitivity, Creation, Powerlessness, Admiration, Introspection, Inspiration

68. “Think before you speak is criticism’s motto; speak before you think, creation’s.”

E.M. Forster

Speech, Criticism, Thought, Creation, Instinct, Expression

69. “Mankind will not be perfect until it can create and destroy like God. It can already destroy: that’s half the battle.”

Alexandre Dumas

Divine Creation, Human Perfection, Destructive Power, Perfection, Creation, Destruction

70. “Your hooves have stamped at the black margin of the wood, Even where horrible green parrots call and swing. My works are all stamped down into the sultry mud.”

William Butler Yeats

Art, Struggle, Nature, Creation, History, Perseverance

71. “I bring you with reverent hands The books of my numberless dreams.”

William Butler Yeats

Writing, Dreams, Imagination, Reverence, Creation, Hope

72. “He only can create the greatest imaginable beauty who has endured all imaginable pangs, for only when we have seen and foreseen what we dread shall we be rewarded by that dazzling unforeseen wing-footed wanderer.”

William Butler Yeats

Creation, Beauty, Endurance, Pain, Transformation, Vision

73. “It’s certain there is no fine thing Since Adam’s fall but needs much laboring.”

William Butler Yeats

Perseverance, Growth, Creation, Effort, Strength, Work

74. “Locke sank into a swoon; The Garden died; God took the spinning-jenny Out of his side.”

William Butler Yeats

Locke’s Swoon, Dying Garden, Spinning-Jenny, Creation, Philosophy, Change

75. “I passed a little further on and heard a peacock say: Who made the grass and made the worms and made my feathers gay, He is a monstrous peacock, and He waveth all the night His languid tail above us, lit with myriad spots of light.”

William Butler Yeats

Peacock’s Pride, Nature’s Creator, Night Imagery, Vanity, Creation, Beauty

76. “As man, as beast, as an ephemeral fly begets, Godhead begets Godhead, For things below are copies, the Great Smaragdine Tablet said. Yet all must copy copies, all increase their kind...”

William Butler Yeats

Cosmic Repetition, Divine Creation, Copying Nature, Creation, Divine, Repetition

77. “Hope and Memory have one daughter and her name is Art, and she has built her dwelling far from the desperate field where men hang out their garments upon forked boughs to be banners of battle. O beloved daughter of Hope and Memory, be with me for a while.”

William Butler Yeats

Art’s Spirit, Hopeful Memory, Creativity’s Gift, Inspiration, Legacy, Creation

78. “Is it not certain that the Creator yawns in earthquake and thunder and other popular displays, but toils in rounding the delicate spiral of a shell?”

William Butler Yeats

Divine Precision, Creator’s Craft, Natural Beauty, Creation, Shell, Details

79. “It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance, for our consideration and application of these things, and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.”

Henry James

Artistic Importance, Life Creation, Art, Creation, Importance, Life

80. “There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill, to create.”

Charles Baudelaire

Worthy Beings, Priest And Poet, Soldier’s Role, Respect, Creation, Knowledge

81. “Oh, Creator! Can monsters exist in the sight of him who alone knows how they were invented, how they invented themselves, and how they might not have invented themselves?”

Charles Baudelaire

Creator Monsters, Invention Mystery, Divine Understanding, Creation, Monsters, Mystery

82. “Call the world if you please “the vale of soul-making.” Then you will find out the use of the world.”

John Keats

Soul, Creation, Purpose, Growth, Transformation, Humanity

83. “The creature has a purpose, and his eyes are bright with it.”

John Keats

Purpose, Determination, Creation, Vision, Intent, Existence

84. “It appears to me that almost any man may like the spider spin from his own inwards his own airy citadel.”

John Keats

Airy Citadel, Spider Spin, Inward Creation, Spider, Creation, Citadel

85. “I am helpless as the sea at the end of her string. I am restless. Restless and useless. I, too, create corpses.”

Sylvia Plath

Helplessness, Sea, Restlessness, Decay, Creation, Despair

86. “If God hadn’t rested on Sunday, He would have had time to finish the world.”

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Humor, Religion, Time, Creation, Life, Rest

87. “I'm not denyin' the women are foolish. God Almighty made 'em to match the men.”

George Eliot

Women And Men, Divine Creation, Foolishness, Women, Men, Creation

88. “God help thee, old man, thy thoughts have created a creature in thee; and he whose intense thinking thus makes him a Prometheus; a vulture feeds upon that heart for ever; that vulture the very creature he creates.”

Herman Melville

Intense Thinking, Prometheus Creation, Eternal Vulture, Thinking, Creation, Vulture

89. “To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme.”

Herman Melville

Mighty Book, Great Theme, Book, Theme, Mighty, Creation

90. “You have free will, so you can ignore the idea, or you can decide to bring it into reality.”

Joe Vitale

Free Will, Reality Creation, Idea Execution, Will, Creation, Execution

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