On proper holding of the bow
Source: Life class: thoughts, exercises, reflections of an itinerant violinist, p. 100
“Newborn Love has short wings. He can scarcely
hold them up, and does not spread them out to fly.”
Act II, scene ii.
Aminta (1573)
Source: Fallen Leaves (2014), Ch. 1 : Our life begins
The Kasîdah of Hâjî Abdû El-Yezdî (1870), Note I : Hâjî Abdû, The Man
Context: The Pilgrim holds with St. Augustine Absolute Evil is impossible because it is always rising up into good. He considers the theory of a beneficent or maleficent deity a purely sentimental fancy, contradicted by human reason and the aspect of the world.
TV Series and Specials (Includes DVDs), Trick of the Mind (2004–2006)
Variant: There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.
Source: The Occult: A History (1971), p. 28
Context: Religion, mysticism and magic all spring from the same basic 'feeling' about the universe: a sudden feeling of meaning, which human beings sometimes 'pick up' accidentally, as your radio might pick up some unknown station. Poets feel that we are cut off from meaning by a thick, lead wall, and that sometimes for no reason we can understand the wall seems to vanish and we are suddenly overwhelmed with a sense of the infinite interestingness of things.
