"We are each born into a situation-a particular……" — Lewis Hyde
"We are each born into a situation-a particular body (its race, sex, health...), a set of ancestors, a community, a nation-and born into the stories told of each of these."
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18 Quotes by Lewis Hyde
Lewis Hyde has 18 quotes on this site.
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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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Most artists are brought to their vocation when their own nascent gifts are awakened by the work of a master.…
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For an economy built to last we must invest in what will fuel us for generations to come. This is…
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As individuals and as a nation, we now suffer from social narcissism. The beloved Echo of our ancestors, the virgin…
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My ancestors wandered lost in the wilderness for forty years because even in biblical times, men would not stop to…
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People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
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Somebody would think I was trying to get favored treatment because my ancestors had the name Moon. And that's a…
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Most of the ancestors that I can trace were born here in the United States of America. And then it…
— Herman Cain
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My ancestors were fighters, something I have inherited.
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Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead.…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Nearly all Americans have ancestors who braved the oceans-liberty-loving risk takers in search of an ideal-the largest voluntary migrations in…
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We came to America, either ourselves or in the persons of our ancestors, to better the ideals of men, to…
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Nearly all Americans have ancestors who braved the oceans - liberty-loving risk takers in search of an ideal - the…
— George W. Bush
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An irrefutable proof that such single-celled primaeval animals really existed as the direct ancestors of Man, is furnished according to…
— Ernst Haeckel
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