“p>A bird in the gusty wind
Deftly changes directionA youth tries to pick up
A pennyThe grapevine in fantasy
Stretches its tentaclesThe Wave in retreat
Arches its back.”
"Curve" [Huxian]
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Gu Cheng4
Chinese poet 1956–1993Related quotes
“A man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841–1935) United States Supreme Court justice
Also reported as "One's mind" instead of "A man's mind", and "can never go back" or "never regains" instead of "never goes back"; most likely properly attributed to Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Misattributed
Adolf Hitler (1889–1945) Führer and Reich Chancellor of Germany, Leader of the Nazi Party
Speech on May 1, 1937, quoted in John S. Conway, The Nazi Persecution of the Churches, 1933-45 (New York, NY, Basic Books, 1968), p. 178
1930s
Carlos Castaneda book The Wheel of Time
Source: The Wheel of Time: Shamans of Ancient Mexico, Their Thoughts About Life, Death and the Universe], (1998), Quotations from "The Power of Silence" (Chapter 18)
Stephen Spender (1909–1995) English poet and man of letters
"An Elementary School Classroom In A Slum" in Modern British Poetry (1962) edited by Louis Untermeyer (1962) variant : Like rootless weeds, the hair torn around their pallor.
Ruins and Visions (1942)
“The little things are important, Mr. Wind-Up Bird”
Haruki Murakami book The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Source: The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841–1935) United States Supreme Court justice
Often given as: A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions. <br class="br">Or: A mind that is stretched by a new idea can never go back to its old dimensions. <br class="br">Actually by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Senior, from " Autocrat of the Breakfast Table https://books.google.com/books?id=BoQ3AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA502&dq=%22stretched+by+a+new+idea%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwidspn60tTJAhVJ1GMKHbt3Bn0Q6AEIHTAA#v=onepage&q=%22stretched%20by%20a%20new%20idea%22&f=false", originally published in The Atlantic, September 1858. <br class="br">Misattributed
Isadora Duncan (1877–1927) American dancer and choreographer
Source: The Art of the Dance (1928), p. 54.
Context: The movement of the waves, of winds, of the earth is ever in the same lasting harmony. We do not stand on the beach and inquire of the ocean what was its movement of the past and what will be its movement of the future. We realize that the movement peculiar to its nature is eternal to its nature. The dancer of the future will be one whose body and soul have grown so harmoniously together that the natural language of that soul will have become the movement of the body.
“Ch. III: Mind - Its Functions and Its Fantasies”
Baba Hari Dass (1923–2018) master yogi, author, builder, commentator of Indian spiritual tradition
Fire without Fuel - The Aphorisms of Baba Hari Dass, 1986
