Joost van den Vondel quotes

“Love must blossom. Through love will grow the trees and the bushes.”
-- Joost van den Vondel

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“Read for yourselves, read for the sake of your inspiration, for the sweet turmoil in your lovely head. But also read against yourselves, read for questioning and impotence, for despair and erudition... and also read those whose darkness or malice or madness or greatness you can't understand because only in this way will you grow, outlive yourself, and become what you are.”

“A woman must be a cute, cuddly, naive little thing - tender, sweet, and stupid.”

“That's when you know for sure somebody loves you. They figure out what you need and they give it to you - without you asking.”

Source : Adriana Trigiani (2009). “Very Valentine”, p.118, Simon and Schuster

“How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.”

“I learned what love is from loving you.”

“There's love, sweet love, for one and all-- For love is best for great and small.”

Source : Maud Lindsay (2010). “Mother Stories”, p.73, Heart of Dixie Publishing

“Love! Love until the night collapses!”

“All that matters is love and work.”

“A tree full of ripened fruits bows down naturally, because of the weight of the fruits and its willingness to make its fruits accessible to others.”

“When I first made a grid I happened to be thinking of the innocence of trees and then this grid came into my mind and I thought it represented innocence, and I still do, and so I painted it and then I was satisfied. I thought, this is my vision.”

Source : "Agnes Martin: the artist mystic who disappeared into the desert" by Olivia Laing, www.theguardian.com. May 22, 2015.