“We dance round in a ring and suppose,
But the Secret sits in the middle and knows.”
Robert Frost (1874–1963) American poet
" The Secret Sits http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-secret-sits/" (1942) <br class="br">1940s
“[Desire] is a perpetual rack, or horsemill, according to Austin, still going round as in a ring.”
Section 2, member 3, subsection 11.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part I
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referring to the circus ring
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Nous n'arrivons pas à changer les choses selon notre désir, mais peu à peu notre désir change. La situation que nous espérions changer parce qu'elle nous était insupportable, nous devient indifférente. Nous n'avons pas pu surmonter l'obstacle, comme nous le voulions absolument, mais la vie nous l'a fait tourner, dépasser, et c'est à peine alors si en nous retournant vers le lointain du passé nous pouvons l'apercevoir, tant il est devenu imperceptible.
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The Nuts of Knowledge (1903)
Context: Where the ring of twilight gleams
Round the sanctuary wrought,
Whispers haunt me — in my dreams
We are one yet know it not.
Some for beauty follow long
Flying traces; some there be
Seek thee only for a song:
I to lose myself in thee.
