
“The very impulse to write springs from an inner chaos crying for order - for meaning.”
Seed of Light (1959)
“The very impulse to write springs from an inner chaos crying for order - for meaning.”
Ode interview (2009)
Context: A lot of the arguments about religion going on at the moment spring from a rather inept understanding of religious truth … Our notion changed during the early modern period when we became convinced that the only path to any kind of truth was reason. That works beautifully for science but doesn't work so well for the humanities. Religion is really an art form and a struggle to find value and meaning amid the ghastly tragedy of human life.
Source: For the Discovery of a Zone of Images', Piero Manzoni, 1957, pp. 16-17
Dion Fortune, quoted in British esotericist and Fortune biographer Gareth Knight's Experience of the Inner Worlds
Letter to his future wife, Elsie Moll Kachel (23 April 1916) as published in Letters of Wallace Stevens (1966) edited by Holly Stevens, No. 202
“All desire springs from a lack, which it strives continually to fill.”
Source: 1980s, Literary Theory: An Introduction (1983), Chapter 5, p. 145 (See also: Rene Girard)
Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow (1952)
Source: Complete Essays 1, 1920-25
Genesis I, 26 (p. 5)
The Pentateuch and Haftorahs (one-volume edition, 1937, ISBN 0-900689-21-8