To see is to forget the name of the thing one sees An Aphorism by Paul Valéry www.goodreads.com Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One SeesThe Gifted Listener: Composer Aaron Copland on Honing Your Talent for Listening to Music seeing
The dignity of age Wood and stone, and now concrete and wood, age slowly and with dignity. They do not shatter hysterically like glass, or tear like paper, but discolor with a melancholy, noble air. Alain de Botton, The Architecture of Happiness Things that shine and glitter time