Quotes of Johan Huizinga - somelinesforyou

“ If a serious statement is defined as one that may be made in terms of waking life, poetry will never rise to the level of seriousness. It lies beyond seriousness, on that more primitive and original level where the child, the animal, the savage, and the seer belong, in the region of dream, enchantment, ecstasy, laughter. To understand poetry we must be capable of donning the child's soul like a magic cloak and of forsaking man's wisdom for the child's. ”

- Johan Huizinga

“ If a serious statement is defined as one that may be made in terms of waking life, poetry will never rise to the level of seriousness. It lies beyond seriousness, on that more primitive and original level where the child, the animal, the savage, and the seer belong, in the region of dream, enchantment, ecstasy, laughter. To understand poetry we must be capable of donning the child's soul like a magic cloak and of forsaking man's wisdom for the child's. ”

- Johan Huizinga

“ Play is a uniquely adaptive act, not subordinate to some other adaptive act, but with a special function of its own in human experience. ”

- Johan Huizinga

“ Play is a uniquely adaptive act, not subordinate to some other adaptive act, but with a special function of its own in human experience. ”

- Johan Huizinga

“ Play is a uniquely adaptive act, not subordinate to some other adaptive act, but with a special function of its own in human experience. ”

- Johan Huizinga

“ Play is a uniquely adaptive act, not subordinate to some other adaptive act, but with a special function of its own in human experience. ”

- Johan Huizinga

“ Play is a uniquely adaptive act, not subordinate to some other adaptive act, but with a special function of its own in human experience. ”

- Johan Huizinga

“ Play is a uniquely adaptive act, not subordinate to some other adaptive act, but with a special function of its own in human experience. ”

- Johan Huizinga

“ Our point of departure must be the conception of an almost childlike play-sense expressing itself in various play-forms, some serious, some playful, but all rooted in ritual and productive of culture by allowing the innate human need of rhythm, harmony, change, alternation, contrast and climax, etc… ”

- Johan Huizinga

“ Play is a uniquely adaptive act, not subordinate to some other adaptive act, but with a special function of its own in human experience. ”

- Johan Huizinga

“ Play is a uniquely adaptive act, not subordinate to some other adaptive act, but with a special function of its own in human experience. ”

- Johan Huizinga

“ Play is a uniquely adaptive act, not subordinate to some other adaptive act, but with a special function of its own in human experience. ”

- Johan Huizinga

“ Our point of departure must be the conception of an almost childlike play-sense expressing itself in various play-forms, some serious, some playful, but all rooted in ritual and productive of culture by allowing the innate human need of rhythm, harmony, change, alternation, contrast and climax, etc… ”

- Johan Huizinga
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