"An anaesthetic is a poet-killer." — Lewis Hyde

"An anaesthetic is a poet-killer."

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18 Quotes by Lewis Hyde

Lewis Hyde has 18 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

We are each born into a situation-a particular body (its race, sex, health...), a set of ancestors, a community, a…
An essential portion of any artist’s labor is not creation so much as invocation. Part of the work cannot be…
The passage into mystery always refreshes. If, when we work, we can look once a day upon the face of…
All that we make and do is shaped by the communities and traditions that contain us, not to mention by…
For the slow labor of realizing a potential gift the artist must retreat to those Bohemias, halfway between the slums…
Unlike the sale of a commodity, the giving of a gift tends to establish a relationship between the parties involved.…
What is it about a work of art, even when it is bought and sold in the market, that makes…
True citizens are not the audience of their government, nor its consumers; they are its makers.
Uncovering secrets is apocalyptic in the simple sense (the Greek root means ‘an uncovering’). In this case, it lifts the…
The gift moves towards the empty place. As it turns in its circle it turns towards him who has been…
Art does not organize parties, nor is it the servant or colleague of power. Rather, the work of art becomes…
We forgive when we give up attachment to our wounds.

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More Anaesthetic Quotes

This quote is filed under Anaesthetic Quotes, one of 10 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

That is your trick, your bit of filthy magic: invisibility, and the anaesthetic power to deaden my attention in your… — D. H. Lawrence
Death: the anaesthetic from which none come round. — Philip Larkin
A remedy for masturbation which is almost always successful in small boys is circumcision, especially when there is any degree… — John Harvey Kellogg
Marx called religion an opiate, and all too often it is. But philosophy is an anaesthetic, a shot to keep… — N.D. Wilson
When the invasion began, the British public was called upon to 'support' troops sent illegally and undemocratically to kill people… — John Pilger
Marriage is the operation by which a woman's vanity and a man's egotism are extracted without an anaesthetic. — Helen Rowland
IN PERSIA I SAW that poetry is meant to be set to music & chanted or sung--for one reason alone--because… — Hakim
There is an anaesthetic of familiarity, a sedative of ordinariness which dulls the senses and hides the wonder of existence.… — Richard Dawkins
When I am dying, I should like my life taken out under general anaesthetic, exactly as if it were a… — Richard Dawkins

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