“In the swirl of its pool
the home-coming salmon
has no intuition
of anything changed.”
"You Helped Give a Shape", An elegy on the death of HM Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother
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Andrew Motion 4
poet, novelist and biographer from England 1952Related quotes
“Never change when love has found its home.”
Neque assueto mutet amore torum.
I, i, 36.
Elegies
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“One small cat changes coming home to an empty house to coming home.”
“Has the world ever been changed by anything save the thought and its magic vehicle the Word?”
Freud and the Future (1937)
Memoirs of Aga Khan: World Enough & Time (1954)
Context: Imam Hassan has explained the Islamic doctrine of God and the Universe by analogy with the sun and its reflection in the pool of a fountain; there is certainly a reflection or image of the sun, but with what poverty and with what little reality; how small and pale is the likeness between this impalpable image and the immense, blazing, white-hot glory of the celestial sphere itself. Allah is the sun; and the Universe, as we know it in all its magnitude, and time, with its power, is nothing more than the reflection of the Absolute in the mirror of the fountain.
In response to statement "You once told me that progress is made only by intuition, and not by the accumulation of knowledge."
Variant transcription from "Death of a Genius" in Life Magazine: "It is not quite so simple. Knowledge is necessary too. A child with great intuition could not grow up to become something worthwhile in life without some knowledge. However there comes a point in everyone's life where only intuition can make the leap ahead, without knowing precisely how.":
Source: Attributed in posthumous publications, Einstein and the Poet (1983), p. 137
Ends and Means (1937)
Source: Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom, p. 8