“Everything tender and melancholy - as life is sometimes, just for one moment.”
Source: Good Morning, Midnight
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“A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809–1894) Poet, essayist, physician
Source: The Professor at the Breakfast Table (1859), Ch. X.
Context: Poets are never young, in one sense. Their delicate ear hears the far-off whispers of eternity, which coarser souls must travel towards for scores of years before their dull sense is touched by them. A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.
“Sometimes it feels like my life is just one long day.”
John Mayer (1977) guitarist and singer/songwriter
On rediscovering his huge collection of Jimi Hendrix and Stevie Ray Vaughan posters he had as a teenager <br class="br">Mayer, John (October 4, 2007). "Proof" http://blog.honeyee.com/john/archives/2006/10/04/index.html Honeyee.com. Retrieved September 4, 2007
“At that moment, beauty itself struck me as a kind of painful melancholy.”
Arthur Golden (1956) American novelist
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Knowing Yourself: The True in the False (1996)
