"Irony has only emergency use. Carried over time……" — Lewis Hyde
"Irony has only emergency use. Carried over time it is the voice of the trapped who have come to enjoy their cage."
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18 Quotes by Lewis Hyde
Lewis Hyde has 18 quotes on this site.
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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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More Cage Quotes
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You can cage the singer but not the song.
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Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb,…
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At a young age, I was interested in comic books, which was really how I learnt to read. The name…
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A believer is a bird in a cage, a freethinker is an eagle parting the clouds with tireless wing.
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Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of…
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I want my son to wear a helmet 24 hours a day. If it was socially acceptable I'd be the…
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You are not called to be a canary in a cage. You are called to be an eagle, and to…
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Marriage can be compared to a cage: birds outside it despair to enter, and birds within, to escape.
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We take our shape, it is true, within and against that cage of reality bequeathed us at our birth; and…
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I paid a worker at New York's zoo to re-open it just for me and Robin (his wife). When we…
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I am now a man of despair, rejected, abandoned, shut up in this iron cage from which there is no…
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On her daughter's pet rabbit: I don't think he liked being in a cage and wouldn't stop masturbating and humping…
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