Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction (1942), It Must Be Abstract
Context: p>As a man and woman meet and love forthwith.
Perhaps there are moments of awakening,
Extreme, fortuitous, personal, in whichWe more than awaken, sit on the edge of sleep,
As on an elevation, and behold
The academies like structures in a mist.</p
“The biggest coward of a man is to awaken the love of a woman without the intention of loving her.”
“Man has to awaken to wonder — and so perhaps do peoples.”
Source: Culture and Value (1980), p. 5e
Context: Man has to awaken to wonder — and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep again.
“A loving person is one who is awakened and transformed into empathy.”
All Will be Well (2004)
“Perhaps it's because it's incredible to meet someone and say: with this person, I'm happy.”
Source: Someone I Loved
“When no man steps forward to meet a need, a woman will.”
Adago, John. East Meets West (p. 95)
Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction (1942), It Must Give Pleasure
Context: p>The difficultest rigor is forthwith,
On the image of what we see, to catch from that
Irrational moment its unreasoning,
As when the sun comes rising, when the sea
Clears deeply, when the moon hangs on the wall Of heaven-haven. These are not things transformed.
Yet we are shaken by them as if they were.
We reason about them with a later reason.</p
