Evolution Quote by Reif Larsen

For all these new and evolutionary facts, meanings, purposes, new poetic messages, new forms and expressions, are inevitable.

— Walt Whitman

“If writing is thinking and discovery and selection and order and meaning, it is also awe and reverence and mystery and magic…Authors arrive at…

— Toni Morrison

Text is linear; it is black and white; it doesn't zoom around the page in 3-D; it isn't intelligent by itself; in fact, in…

— Andrea diSessa

During half a century of literary work, I have endeavoured to introduce the philosophy of evolution into the sphere of literature, and to inspire…

— Anonymous

The text is merely one of the contexts of a piece of literature, its lexical or verbal one, no more or less important than…

— Leslie Fiedler

A text is not a text unless it hides from the first comer, from the first glance, the law of its composition and the…

— Jacques Derrida

“The text, in its mass, is comparable to a sky, at once flat and smooth, deep, without edges and without landmarks; like the soothsayer…

— Roland Barthes

Texts are always in flux.

— Robert Darnton

“It's hard to see what the problem is. Language speakers and writers have always been inventive, and texting is just one further example of…

— Jean Aitchison

The survival or preservation of certain favoured words in the struggle for existence is natural selection.

— Charles Darwin

“Even in societies where words are often strictly controlled, messages diverse never die. Resembling seeds scattered here and there, they find all manner of…

— William E. Jefferson

Different themes inevitably require different methods of expression. This does not imply either evolution or progress; it is a matter of following the idea…

— Pablo Picasso