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Lewis Hyde

  • Life colorshas quoted2 years ago
    my dear Sir, the only advice I have is this: to go into yourself and to examine the depths from which your life springs; at its source you will find the answer to the question of whether you have to write.
  • Life colorshas quoted2 years ago
    With all devotion and sympathy,
  • Life colorshas quoted2 years ago
    I have them with me here: the Bible, and the books of the great Danish writer .

    We see that he was religious

  • Life colorshas quoted2 years ago
    from life’s faintest scent to the full, grand savour of its heaviest fruits
  • Life colorshas quoted2 years ago
    You sum him up very well with your phrase about ‘living and writing in rut’.
    – And indeed artistic experience lies so incredibly close to sexual experience, to its pains and pleasures, that both phenomena are really just different forms of one and the same desire and felicity.
  • Life colorshas quoted2 years ago
    for its growth is painful like the growth of boys and sad like the beginning of spring.
  • Zaahrahas quotedlast year
    Afraid of what?
    Afraid, I think, that he might never become his own person
  • Zaahrahas quoted11 days ago
    He lived in fear of two false fates: either that he might end up as lost as the ragged poor who had surrounded him in Paris or else that he might succumb to the safe but numbing comforts of convention.
  • Zaahrahas quoted11 days ago
    In the vision Rilke offers, solitude is not merely a matter of being alone: it is a territory to be entered and occupied
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