“Folklore is the perfect second skin. From under its hide, we can see all the shimmering, shadowy uncertainties of the world.”

—  Jane Yolen

Last update June 3, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "Folklore is the perfect second skin. From under its hide, we can see all the shimmering, shadowy uncertainties of the w…" by Jane Yolen?
Jane Yolen photo
Jane Yolen 28
American speculative fiction and children's writer 1939

Related quotes

Ogden Nash photo

“It is the sin of omission, the second kind of sin,
That lays eggs under your skin.”

Ogden Nash (1902–1971) American poet

"Portrait of the Artist as a Prematurely Old Man" (1959)

Ayn Rand photo

“We are all brothers under the skin - and I, for one, would be willing to skin humanity to prove it.”

Ayn Rand (1905–1982) Russian-American novelist and philosopher
Annie Finch photo

“All the things we hide in water
Hoping we won't see them go.
Forests growing under water
Press against the ones we know.”

Annie Finch (1956) American poet

From Landing Under Water, I See Roots, from Calendars (2003)

Francisco Palau photo

“Now for the other union. The first one sees God as infinitely lovable and beautiful; its aim is the contemplation of his attributes and perfections. The second union sees him as the creator, conserver, governor, redeemer, glorifier and vivifier of the whole world.”

Francisco Palau (1811–1872) Beatified Spanish Discalced Carmelite friar and priest

Letter to Juana Gratia (1857)
Context: Now for the other union. The first one sees God as infinitely lovable and beautiful; its aim is the contemplation of his attributes and perfections. The second union sees him as the creator, conserver, governor, redeemer, glorifier and vivifier of the whole world.
At certain moments, the spirit of the Lord will move and lead you towards this second union and you have to cooperate. He will be presented to you as the Lord, king and governor of the world, the Lord God of hosts, and wil take you to objects resembling this presence. Since the first union is not strengthened or prefected or completed except in the second, you need to start by this.

Khaled Hosseini photo

“One could not count the moons that shimmer on her roofs,
Or the thousand splendid suns that hide behind her walls.”

Khaled Hosseini book A Thousand Splendid Suns

Source: A Thousand Splendid Suns

Gottlob Frege photo

“Is it always permissible to speak of the extension of a concept, of a class? And if not, how do we recognize the exceptional cases? Can we always infer from the extension of one concept's coinciding with that of a second, that every object which falls under the first concept also falls under the second?”

Gottlob Frege (1848–1925) mathematician, logician, philosopher

Vol. 2, p. 127. Replying to Bertrand Russell's letter about Russell's Paradox; quoted in The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/russell-paradox/
Grundgesetze der Arithmetik, 1893 and 1903

“The world is holy. We are holy. All life is holy. Daily prayers are delivered on the lips of breaking waves, the whisperings of grasses, the shimmering of leaves.”

Terry Tempest Williams (1955) American writer
Arthur Stanley Eddington photo

“Matter and all else that is in the physical world have been reduced to a shadowy symbolism.”

Arthur Stanley Eddington (1882–1944) British astrophysicist

Science and the Unseen World (1929), III, p.33

“You can't make a perfect painting. We can see perfection in our minds. But we can't make a perfect painting.”

Agnes Martin (1912–2004) American artist

interview with Joan Simon, 1995 in Perfection is in the Mind, p. 86; as quoted in A House Divided: American Art Since 1955, Anne M. G. Wagner, Univ. of California Press, 2012, p. 263
1980 - 2000

“We are no more alike under the skin than we are on top of it.”

Henry S. Haskins (1875–1957)

Source: Meditations in Wall Street (1940), p. 134

Related topics