“Irony got dangerous when it became a habit. Wallace quoted Lewis Hyde…”Irony has only emergency use. Carried over time, it is the voice of the trapped who have come to enjoy the cage.” Then he continued: This is because irony,… — Lewis Hyde Copy Share Image
What is it about a work of art, even when it is bought and sold in the market, that makes us distinguish it from… — Lewis Hyde Copy Share Image
Erik Erikson has commented: Potentially creative men like (Bernard) Shaw build the personal fundament of their work during a self-decreed moratorium, during which they… — Lewis Hyde Copy Share Image
“All cultures seem to find a slightly alien local population to carry the Hermes projection. For the Vietnamese it is the Chinese, and for… — Lewis Hyde Copy Share Image
The passage into mystery always refreshes. If, when we work, we can look once a day upon the face of mystery, then our labor… — Lewis Hyde Copy Share Image
To be a great teacher, you can't simply be looking at how to earn your income. And with a priest or spiritual leader -… — Lewis Hyde Copy Share Image
Irony has only emergency use. Carried over time it is the voice of the trapped who have come to enjoy their cage. — Lewis Hyde Copy Share Image
All that we make and do is shaped by the communities and traditions that contain us, not to mention by money, power, politics, and… — Lewis Hyde Copy Share Image
Science may not be as intimate as the medical profession; nonetheless, it certainly is a community in which ideas are often shared as contributions,… — Lewis Hyde Copy Share Image
“There is the family of our birth and then there is a more noble world to which we really belong; the richness of this… — Lewis Hyde Copy Share Image
