"Erik Erikson has commented: Potentially creative men like……" — 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 often starve themselves, socially, erotically, and, at last but not least, nutritionally, in order to let the grosser weeds die out, and make way for the growth of their inner garden."
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18 Quotes by Lewis Hyde
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We are each born into a situation-a particular body (its race, sex, health...), a set of ancestors, a community, a…
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An essential portion of any artist’s labor is not creation so much as invocation. Part of the work cannot be…
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The passage into mystery always refreshes. If, when we work, we can look once a day upon the face of…
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All that we make and do is shaped by the communities and traditions that contain us, not to mention by…
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For the slow labor of realizing a potential gift the artist must retreat to those Bohemias, halfway between the slums…
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Unlike the sale of a commodity, the giving of a gift tends to establish a relationship between the parties involved.…
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What is it about a work of art, even when it is bought and sold in the market, that makes…
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True citizens are not the audience of their government, nor its consumers; they are its makers.
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Uncovering secrets is apocalyptic in the simple sense (the Greek root means ‘an uncovering’). In this case, it lifts the…
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The gift moves towards the empty place. As it turns in its circle it turns towards him who has been…
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Art does not organize parties, nor is it the servant or colleague of power. Rather, the work of art becomes…
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We forgive when we give up attachment to our wounds.
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Paradise had four rivers that watered the earth.... and howsoever neglected by many, they make glad the city of God.…
— Thomas Adams
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Many years ago a very wise man named Bernard Baruch took me aside and put his arm around my shoulder.…
— Harpo Marx
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George Bernard Shaw was right. He summed it all up when he said: "The secret of being miserable is to…
— Dale Carnegie
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As yet, Bernard Shaw hasn't become prominent enough to have any enemies, but none of his friends like him.
— Oscar Wilde
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Bernard Harris is a great example of the American success story. In Dream Walker he describes how he is trying…
— Craig R. Barrett
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Bernard Williams has been a distinctive presence on the intellectual scene for more than three decades. . . . His…
— Colin McGinn
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This is a major, wide-ranging, and comprehensive book. A philosophical investigation that is also a literary and historical study, Truth…
— Alexander Nehamas
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Those were the days in this country where H. G. Wells, Bernard Shaw and Conan Doyle could have influence, and…
— Julian Barnes
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At 83, George Bernard Shaw's mind was perhaps not quite as good as it used to be, but it was…
— Alexander Woollcott
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So youve been over into Russia? said Bernard Baruch, and I answered very literally, I have been over into the…
— Lincoln Steffens
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Bernard King is the only guy that ever scared the hell out of me.
— Dominique Wilkins
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Language of the Gun shows why Bernard Harcourt has earned a reputation as one of our most provocative and informative…
— Randall Kennedy
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