"The passage into mystery always refreshes. If, when……" — 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 satisfies. We are lightened when our gifts rise from pools we cannot fathom. Then we know they are not a solitary egotism and they are inexhaustible."
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18 Quotes by Lewis Hyde
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True citizens are not the audience of their government, nor its consumers; they are its makers.
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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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