Cages Quote by Lewis Hyde

We are only alive to the degree that we can let ourselves be moved.

— Lewis Hyde

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

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

“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

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

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

We forgive when we give up attachment to our wounds.

— Lewis Hyde

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

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

“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

An anaesthetic is a poet-killer.

— Lewis Hyde

“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…

— Lewis Hyde