“The academic mind reflects infinity, and is full of light by the simple process of being shallow and standing still.”
Inglewood in Manalive (1912)
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English mystery novelist and Christian apologist 1874–1936Related quotes
Context: And now we are wanting everyone in every country through the education department of every government to unfold that inner content of life. It’s very simple to light the lamp is so easy. And yet that process of lighting the lamp is enough to eliminate the difficulties in the darkness.
“The process by which banks create money is so simple that the mind is repelled.”
Source: Money: Whence It Came, Where It Went (1975), Chapter III, Banks, p. 18
“For simple light is perhaps still more beautiful than colors.”
(zh-CN) 一样是月明，
一样是隔山灯火，
满天的星
只使人不见，
梦似的挂起。
"Do Not Throw Away" (《别丢掉》), translated by Michelle Yeh in A Chorus for Peace: A Global Anthology of Poetry by Women (University of Iowa Press, 2002), p. 41
Variant translation:
The moon is still so bright;
Beyond the hills the lamp sheds the same light.
The sky besprinkled with star on star,
But I do not know where you are.
It seems
You hang above like dreams.
Xu Yuanchong, Vanished Springs: The Life and Love of a Chinese Intellectual (Vantage Press, 1999), pp. 44–45
“The process of standing apart and being involved has come.”
Writing and Being (1991)
Context: With adolescence comes the first reaching out to otherness through the drive of sexuality. For most children, from then on the faculty of the imagination, manifest in play, is lost in the focus on day dreams of desire and love, but for those who are going to be artists of one kind or another the first life-crisis after that of birth does something else in addition: the imagination gains range and extends by the subjective flex of new and turbulent emotions. There are new perceptions. The writer begins to be able to enter into other lives. The process of standing apart and being involved has come.
The Lost Son, ll. 161 - 167
The Lost Son and Other Poems (1948)
"Deep and surface structure"
Quotes 2000s, 2007-09, (3rd ed., 2009)
“The only thing I know is this: I am full of wounds and still standing on my feet.”