“They can picture love affairs of chemicals and stars, a romance of stones, or the fertility of fire. Strange, fertile correspondences the alchemists sensed in unlikely orders of being. Between men and planets, plants and gestures, words and weather.”
The Lords and the New Creatures: Poems (1969), The Lords: Notes on Vision
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“I can testify to the fertility of the Word among the small and the humble.”
Emmanuel Marie Philippe Louis Lafont (1945) Catholic bishop
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“Shit can be used as fertilizer.”
Jim Goad (1961) Author, publisher
Shit Magnet: One Man's Miraculous Ability to Absorb the World's Guilt (Feral House, 2002)
John Gall (1925–2014) American physician
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“Painting must be fertile. It must give birth to a world.... it must fertilize the imagination.”
Joan Miró (1893–1983) Catalan painter, sculptor, and ceramicist
from: Taillandier, 1959; as quoted in Calder Miró, ed. Elizabeth Hutton Turner / Oliver Wick; Philip Wilson Publishers, London 2004, p. 82, note 24
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Marie-Louise von Franz (1915–1998) Swiss psychologist and scholar
Creation Myths (1972), Creation Renewed & Reversed
Context: In other words, the idea of the philosopher's stone of the alchemists is identical with the idea of the glorified body. This offers an archetypal approach to some Eastern ideas, because in different Eastern yoga practices and meditation the goal is to produce within oneself the so-called diamond body which is an immortal nucleus of the personality.
John Betjeman (1906–1984) English poet, writer and broadcaster
"In Ireland with Emily" from New Bats in Old Belfries.
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“If pauses can be pregnant, this one’s on the run from a fertility clinic.”
Charles Stross The Laundry Files
Source: The Laundry Files, The Annihilation Score (2015), Chapter 5, “The Office” (p. 89)