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- A poet's pleasure is to withhold a little of his meaning, to intensify by mystification. He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove…
- A poet dares to be just so clear and no clearer; he approaches lucid ground warily, like a mariner who is determined not to scrape…
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- Mathematical economics is old enough to be respectable, but not all economists respect it. It has powerful supporters and impressive testimonials, yet… — James R Newman
- There is nothing truer than myth: history, in its attempt to realize myth, distorts it, stops halfway; when history claims to have… — Eugene Ionesco
- A poet's pleasure is to withhold a little of his meaning, to intensify by mystification. He unzips the veil from beauty, but… — Elwyn Brooks White
- Those who have prophesied dreadful consequences as a result of the greater sexual freedom which the young assert - unwanted babies, venereal… — Colin Ward
- The corporations plainly want academic scholarship to create a web of mystification that will avoid any public awareness of the way in… — Noam Chomsky
- Mystification is the psychiatrist's defense against the danger of being found out. — Leonard Roy Frank
- A poet dares to be just so clear and no clearer; he approaches lucid ground warily, like a mariner who is determined… — Elwyn Brooks White
- I am against: general ideas / the nude / the appropriation of images / the mystification of the untitled / the glorification… — Marlene Dumas
- Mystification is simple; clarity is the hardest thing of all. — Julian Barnes
- The resulting texts always took a narrative term, enigmatic at first but ultimately explicit and often premonitory. The semantic distribution of these… — Brion Gysin
- History always constitutes the relation between a present and its past. Consequently fear of the present leads to mystification of the past — John Berger
- I am not out to liberate anybody. You have to liberate yourself, and you are unable to do that. What I have… — U.G. Krishnamurti