“Distorting hackneyed words in hackneyed songs
He turns revolt into a style, prolongs
The impulse to a habit of the time.”
"Elvis Presley,", in The Sense of Movement (1957).
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English poet 1929–2004Related quotes
John Leonard (1939–2008) American critic, writer, and commentator
Interview with Bill Moyers http://www.pbs.org/now/transcript/transcript_leonard.html, Now, PBS (28 November 2003) <br class="br">Context: The words, the style always reflects a habit of mind. And the habit of mind comes in from a different angle. The habit of mind uses the colloquial here and uses the joke there. And then creates some discordant music and then something strange and wonderful happens.<br>And you see things differently. You see a different light is shed on it.
“The song of canaries
Never varies,
And when they're moulting
They're pretty revolting.”
Ogden Nash (1902–1971) American poet
"The Canary"
Free Wheeling (1931)
Edward VIII of the United Kingdom (1894–1972) king of the United Kingdom and its dominions in 1936
14 April 1920
Around the World with the Prince of Wales
“Time will prolong time, and life will serve life.”
Albert Camus book The Myth of Sisyphus
The Myth of Sisyphus (1942), The Absurd Man
Context: Time will prolong time, and life will serve life. In this field that is both limited and bulging with possibilities, everything to himself, except his lucidity, seems unforeseeable to him. What rule, then, could emanate from that unreasonable order? The only truth that might seem instructive to him is not formal: it comes to life and unfolds in men. The absurd mind cannot so much expect ethical rules at the end of its reasoning as, rather, illustrations and the breath of human lives.
Jordan Peterson (1962) Canadian clinical psychologist, cultural critic, and professor of psychology
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J. Howard Moore (1862–1916)
Source: Ethics and Education (1912), The Biology of Child Nature, p. 135