“Poets are the mad midwives to reality. They see not what is, nor what can be, but what must become.”
Source: Hyperion (1989), Chapter 3 (p. 192)
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“Sunshine cannot bleach the snow,
Nor time unmake what poets know.”
"The Test", as quoted in Emerson As A Poet (1883) by Joel Benton, p. 40
Source: Motivation and Personality (1954), p. 93.
Context: A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What a man can be, he must be. This need we may call self-actualization. This term, first coined by Kurt Goldstein, is being used in this paper in a much more specific and limited fashion. It refers to the desire for self-fulfillment, namely, to the tendency for him to become actualized in what he is potentially. This tendency might be phrased as the desire to become more and more what one is, to become everything that one is capable of becoming.
Source: Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar
"¿No es lo mismo que suceda lo que deseamos, que desear lo que suceda? Lo que importa es que nuestra voluntad y los sucesos estén de acuerdo."
La otra aventura, 1968.
“You see? In the fairy tales one does as one wants, and in reality one does what one can.”
Source: Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay