“Think of Shakespeare and Melville and you think of thunder, lightning, wind. They all knew the joy of creating in large or small forms, on unlimited or restricted canvases. These are the children of the gods.”

— Ray Bradbury, book Zen in the Art of Writing

Source: Zen in the Art of Writing

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of the suns and the stars
and the void through which they travel.
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