“There is the family of our birth and then there is a more noble world to which we really belong; the richness of this ideal world is often proportional to the poverty of the real, as personal grandiosity is proportional… — Lewis Hyde Copy Share Image
Uncovering secrets is apocalyptic in the simple sense (the Greek root means ‘an uncovering’). In this case, it lifts the shame covers. It allows articulation to enter where silence once ruled. — 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
