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| Quotations - Books | [Quote No.72829] Need Area: Fun > Books
"I have never written a book that was not born out of a question I needed to answer for myself. [As they say most research is me-search! Most so called successful people, especially those that achieve something others find too difficult, have been profoundly affected by some unmet need that then goes on to focus persistently their desire and attention towards some related special interest for which they then become known!]" - May Sarton
(1912-1995), the pen name of Eleanore Marie Sarton, a Belgian-American novelist, poet, and memoirist.
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"I read to learn. I think to make sense out of what I’ve learned. And I write to share what I’ve learned with others!" - Dr. Mardy Grothe
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"Art is often about educating and entertaining! [The idea that art should both educate and entertain has a long history, with roots stretching back to Ancient Greece and thinkers like Plato - in his ‘Republic’, and Aristotle - in his ‘Poetics’, who both explored the moral and political roles of art. In his ‘Poetica’ (‘The Art of Poetry’), the Roman poet, Horace states that the ultimate goal of a poet is to ‘prodesse aut delectare’ - ‘either to teach or to delight’ - and that the greatest artists do both. The Roman term for this was ‘dulce et utile’ - ‘sweet and useful’. The idea that art has a social function beyond mere aesthetic enjoyment can be seen in the way Homer and other ancient writers envisioned art’s role in society. In this context, art was seen as a powerful tool for shaping values, virtues, and public life, in both peace and war.]" - Seymour@imagi-natives.com
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| [Quote No.73025] Need Area: Fun > Books
"Words are events, they do things, change things. They transform both speaker and hearer ...feed understanding or emotion back and forth and amplify it! " - Ursula K. Le Guin
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"[Language and poetry:] What a great language I have, it’s a fine language we inherited from the fierce conquistadors ... They strode over the giant cordilleras, over the rugged Americas, hunting for potatoes, sausages, beans, black tobacco, gold, corn, fried eggs, with a voracious appetite not found in the world since then ... They swallowed up everything, religions, pyramids, tribes, idolatries just like the ones they brought along in their huge sacks ... Wherever they went, they razed the land ... But words fell like pebbles out of the boots of the barbarians, out of their beards, their helmets, their horseshoes, luminous words that were left glittering here ... our language. We came up losers ... We came up winners ... They carried off the gold and left us the gold ... They carried everything off and left us everything ... They left us the words." - Pablo Neruda
Chilean poet-diplomat and politician who won the 1971 Nobel Prize in Literature.
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| [Quote No.73076] Need Area: Fun > Books
"[Natural individual freedom and personal responsibility:-] The Imagination, then, I consider either as primary, or secondary. The primary Imagination I hold to be the living Power and prime Agent of all human Perception, and as a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I AM.
The secondary Imagination I consider as an echo of the former, co-existing with the conscious will, yet still as identical with the primary in the kind of its agency, and differing only in degree and in the mode of its operation. It dissolves, diffuses, dissipates in order to recreate; or where this process is rendered impossible yet still at all events it struggles to idealize and to unify. It is essentially vital, even as all objects (as objects) are essentially fixed and dead.
The Fancy is indeed no other than a mode of Memory emancipated from the order of time and space; while it is blended with and modified by that empirical phenomenon of the will, which we express by the word CHOICE. But equally with the ordinary memory the Fancy must receive all its materials ready made from the law of association." - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(1772–1834), English poet, critic, and philosopher. As quoted in his work, ‘Biographia Literaria’, Chapter 13 - Imagination.
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"[The mystery of life and death and getting the most from the time in-between:-] A reader lives a thousand lives before [s]he dies." - George R.R. Martin
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"A book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still called ‘leaves’) imprinted with dark pigmented squiggles. One glance at it and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, the author is speaking, clearly and silently, inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another. Books break the shackles of time - proof that humans can work magic." - Carl Sagan
Renowned scientist and author Carl Sagan. Quote from his iconic science television series and companion book, ‘Cosmos’, specifically in the episode and chapter, ‘The Persistence of Memory’.
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"Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts." - Blaise Pascal
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"Anyone who wishes to become a good writer [communicator] should endeavour, before he allows himself to be tempted by the more showy qualities, to be direct, simple, brief, vigorous, and lucid." - H.W. Fowler
(1858-1933), lexicographer
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