
“Woe to the thinker who is not the gardener but only the soil of the plants that grow in him!”
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Daybreak — Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality (1881)
An Afternoon with Mark Pesce: The Uncut Version http://hyperreal.org/~mpesce/interview.html
“Woe to the thinker who is not the gardener but only the soil of the plants that grow in him!”
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Daybreak — Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality (1881)
“Plant a garden in which strange plants grow and mysteries bloom.”
"The Art of Fiction" - interview by Robert Faggen, The Paris Review No. 130 (Spring 1994) <!-- p. 92 -->
Context: I'm for mystery, not interpretive answers. … The answer is never the answer. What's really interesting is the mystery. If you seek the mystery instead of the answer, you'll always be seeking. I've never seen anybody really find the answer, but they think they have. So they stop thinking. But the job is to seek mystery, evoke mystery, plant a garden in which strange plants grow and mysteries bloom. The need for mystery is greater than the need for an answer.
“Unemployment is capitalism's way of getting you to plant a garden.”
Poem Song for Dov Shamir in: Dannie Abse (1963), Dannie Abse, p. 8
“God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed it is the purest of human pleasures.”
Of Gardens
Essays (1625)
"Address in Berkeley at the University of California (109)" (23 March 1962) http://www.jfklibrary.org/Research/Research-Aids/Ready-Reference/JFK-Quotations.aspx
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