p, 125
On the Sizes and Distances of the Sun and the Moon (c. 250 BC)
“A great deal of beauty is rapture. A circle is a necessity. Otherwise you would see no one. We each have our circle.”
"A Circular Play," from Last Operas and Plays (1949) [written in 1920]
Context: A beauty is not suddenly in a circle. It comes with rapture. A great deal of beauty is rapture. A circle is a necessity. Otherwise you would see no one. We each have our circle.
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American art collector and experimental writer of novels, p… 1874–1946Related quotes
“If you have formed a circle to go into,
Go into it yourself and see how you would do.”
To God
1800s, Poems from Blake's Notebook (c. 1807-1809)
“A circle looks at a square and sees a badly made circle.”
Source: Authority
“… each dot: the center of a circle without circumference …”
Source: Echoes from the Bottomless Well (1985), p. 2
as quoted in: Marc Chagall, – a Biography, Sidney Alexander, Cassell, London, 1978, p. 178
1910 - 1920
“Is revenge a circle inside of a circle inside of a circle?”
Source: Flight