“ The philosophy of poetry must acknowledge that the poetic act has no past, at least no recent past, in which its preparation and appearance could be followed. ”
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“ To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry. ”
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“ Here is Menard's own intimate forest: 'Now I am traversed by bridle paths, under the seal of sun and shade...I live in great density...Shelter lures me. I slump down into the thick foliage...In the forest, I am my entire self. Everything is possible in my heart just as it is in the hiding places in ravines. Thickly wooded distance separates me from moral codes and cities. ”
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“ A word is a bud attempting to become a twig. How can one not dream while writing? It is the pen which dreams. The blank page gives the right to dream. ”
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“ To sum up, while we do not seek to instruct the reader, we should feel rewarded for our efforts if we can persuade him to practice an exercise at which we are a master: to laugh at oneself. No progress is possible in the acquisition of objective knowledge without this selfcritical irony. ”
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“ To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry. ”
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“ To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry. ”
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“ If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace. ”
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“ To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry. ”
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“ So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us. ”
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“ Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls. ”
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“ A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language. ”
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“ So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us. ”
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“ A word is a bud attempting to become a twig. How can one not dream while writing? It is the pen which dreams. The blank page gives the right to dream.A word is a bud attempting to become a twig. How can one not dream while writing? It is the pen which dreams… ”
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“ Ideas are invented only as correctives to the past. Through repeated rectification of this kind one may hope to disengage an idea that is valid. ”
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“ Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls. ”
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“ I am a dreamer of words, of written words. I think I am reading; a word stops me. I leave the page. The syllables of the word begin to move around. Stressed accents begin to invert. The word abandons its meaning like an overload which is too heavy and prevents dreaming… ”
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“ The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears the truth. ”
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“ I am a dreamer of words, of written words. I think I am reading; a word stops me. I leave the page. The syllables of the word begin to move around. Stressed accents begin to invert. The word abandons its meaning like an overload which is too heavy and prevents dreaming… ”
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“ One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it. To remain in touch with the past requires a love of memory. To remain in touch with the past requires a constant imaginative effort. ”
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“ The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know. ”
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“ If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace. ”
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“ Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event. ”
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“ Ideas are invented only as correctives to the past. Through repeated rectification of this kind one may hope to disengage an idea that is valid. ”
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“ So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us. ”
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“ To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer. ”
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