“Perhaps," said the man, "you would like to be lost with us. I have found it much more agreeable to be lost in the company of others.”
Source: The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane
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American children's writer 1964Related quotes
“You will say that I am lost;
That, being enamoured,
I lost myself; and yet was found.”
Spiritual Canticle of The Soul and The Bridegroom
Context: If, then, on the common land
I am no longer seen or found,
You will say that I am lost;
That, being enamoured,
I lost myself; and yet was found. ~ 29
“You get lost out of a desire to be lost. But in the place called lost strange things are found…”
Source: The Life of Poetry (1949), Chapter One : The Fear of Poetry
Context: In this moment when we face horizons and conflicts wider than ever before, we want our resources, the ways of strength. We look again to the human wish, its faiths, the means by which the imagination leads us to surpass ourselves.
If there is a feeling that something has been lost, it may be because much has not yet been used, much is still to be found and begun.
Everywhere we are told that our human resources are all to be used, that our civilization itself means the uses of everything it has — the inventions, the histories, every scrap of fact. But there is one kind of knowledge — infinitely precious, time-resistant more than monuments, here to be passed between the generations in any way it may be: never to be used. And that is poetry.
“The things I lose completely are those which, lost by me, are not found by others.”
Mis cosas totalmente perdidas son aquellas que, al perderlas yo, no las encuentran otros.
Voces (1943)
