“The space between the young readers eyeballs and the printed page is a holy place and officialdom should trample all over it at their peril.”
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Johann Gottlieb Fichte (1762–1814) German philosopher
Grundriss des Eigenthümlichen der Wissenschaftslehre in Rücksicht auf das theoretische Vermögen (1795) GA I.3, as quoted/translated by Erhard Scholz, "Philosophy as a Cultural Resource and Medium of Reflection for Hermann Weyl" http://arxiv.org/abs/math/0409596 (2004).
“Very deep. You should send that in to the Reader's Digest. They've got a page for people like you.”
Douglas Adams The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy pentalogy
Source: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Van Morrison (1945) Northern Irish singer-songwriter and musician
Rave On, John Donne
Song lyrics, Inarticulate Speech of the Heart (1983)
Marshall McLuhan (1911–1980) Canadian educator, philosopher, and scholar-- a professor of English literature, a literary critic, and a …
Source: 1980s, Laws of Media: The New Science (with Eric McLuhan) (1988), p. 42
“On the pavement
of my trampled soul
the steps of madmen
weave the prints of rude crude words.”
Vladimir Mayakovsky (1893–1930) Russian and Soviet poet, playwright, artist and stage and film actor
"1" (1913); translation from Patricia Blake (ed.) The Bedbug and Selected Poetry (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1975) p. 53
“A place of dream, the Holy Land
Hangs midway between earth and heaven.”
Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford (1835–1921) American author
The Holy Land.
Ernst von Glasersfeld (1917–2010) German philosopher
Von Glasersfeld (1989, p. 444) cited in: Wolff-Michael Roth (2011) Passibility: At the Limits of the Constructivist Metaphor. p. 110
“The divorce of poetry and music was first reflected by the printed page.”
Marshall McLuhan (1911–1980) Canadian educator, philosopher, and scholar-- a professor of English literature, a literary critic, and a …
Source: 1960s, The Gutenberg Galaxy (1962), p. 227
Tristram Stuart (1977) British historian
"Is it right to write?" https://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2006/nov/24/onpaper, The Guardian (24 November 2006).