Authors can write stories without people assuming that they are autobiographies, but songwriters and poets are often considered to be the characters in their works. I like Michelangelo's vision, 'I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.

~ Criss Jami

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The idea of beauty, like a slab of magnificent marble, has crushed all possible refinement and vitality from the psychology of love.

~ José Ortega Y Gasset

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Swallowing, he entered the second code. Then there was a sound like a marble dropping on the floor - bouncing slowly, gradually getting faster as it dropped lower and lower… The thing was toying with him! Where was it? He strained his hearing, but all was again silent. He wanted to shout and scream obscenities at it, but he fought the impulse. It might not really know his location after all - and that would've led it right to him. It must be coming for him! It must be by the door by now, looking for a way in. Time was running out. He hastily keyed in the third and last code.Death the destroyer never is late!

~ Christina Engela

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A sculptor wields The chisel, and the stricken marble grows To beauty.

~ William C. Bryant

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What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.

~ Joseph Addison

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Life is made up of marble and mud.

~ Nathaniel Hawthorne

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