“Conceive. That is the word that means both the beginning in imagination and the end in creation.”
The Serpent, in Pt. I, Act I
1920s, Back to Methuselah (1921)
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Irish playwright 1856–1950Related quotes
Writing and Being (1991)
Context: In the beginning was the Word. The Word was with God, signified God's Word, the word that was Creation. But over the centuries of human culture the word has taken on other meanings, secular as well as religious. To have the word has come to be synonymous with ultimate authority, with prestige, with awesome, sometimes dangerous persuation, to have Prime Time, a TV talk show, to have the gift of the gab as well as that of speaking in tongues. The word flies through space, it is bounced from satellites, now nearer than it has ever been to the heaven from which it was believed to have come.
The Serpent, in Pt. I, Act I
1920s, Back to Methuselah (1921)
Column: Jo Cox – After a hard day’s night, the real work starts http://www.batleynews.co.uk/news/local/column-jo-cox-after-a-hard-day-s-night-the-real-work-starts-1-7264438 (16 May 2015)
“The investigation of the meaning of words is the beginning of education.”
Arrian, Discourses of Epictetus, i. 17
"The Angel of the Odd" (1850).
Mountain Interval (1920), 5. In the Home Stretch, Line 187-192
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Context: “My dear,
It’s who first thought the thought. You’re searching, Joe,
For things that don’t exist; I mean beginnings.
Ends and beginnings—there are no such things.
There are only middles.
