“Now we stand face to face—but who can tell
we shan't wake up and learn it was a dream?”
Source: The Tale of Kiều (1813), Lines 443–444
“However confused the scene of our life appears, however torn we may be who now do face that scene, it can be faced, and we can go on to be whole.”
Source: The Life of Poetry (1949), Chapter One : The Fear of Poetry
Context: Poetry is, above all, an approach to the truth of feeling, and what is the use of truth!
How do we use feeling?
How do we use truth! However confused the scene of our life appears, however torn we may be who now do face that scene, it can be faced, and we can go on to be whole.
If we use the resources we now have, we and the world itself may move in one fullness. Moment to moment, we can grow, if we can bring ourselves to meet the moment with our lives.
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Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity
Source: Attributed in posthumous publications, Albert Einstein: The Human Side (1979), p. 37 - 27 January 1921
Context: Where the world ceases to be the scene of our personal hopes and wishes, where we face it as free beings admiring, asking, observing, there we enter the realm of Art and Science. If what is seen and experienced is portrayed in the language of logic, we are engaged in science. If it is communicated through forms whose connections are not accessible to the conscious mind but are recognized intuitively as meaningful, then we are engaged in art. Common to both is love and devotion to that which transcends personal concerns and volition.
“What we face is a threat to our whole way of life”
Margaret Thatcher (1925–2013) British stateswoman and politician
Conservative Party television broadcast “Winter of Discontent” (17 January 1979) http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/103926 <br class="br">Leader of the Opposition <br class="br">Context: If the past is any guide, what has happened this winter could happen again next winter and the winter after that and so on and so on. What we face is a threat to our whole way of life... The case is now surely overwhelming, there will be no solution to our difficulties which does not include some restriction on the power of the unions.
“We have that Indian scene. We can get the Indians from the reservoir.”
Samuel Goldwyn (1879–1974) American film producer (1879-1974).
Alternately reported as "We can get all the Indians we need at the reservoir", in Paul F. Boller, John George, They Never Said It (1990), p. 40.
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Ulysses S. Grant (1822–1885) 18th President of the United States
1870s, Fourth State of the Union Address (1872)
Mark Kingwell (1963) Canadian philosopher
Source: The World We Want (2000), Chapter 4, Spaces And Dreams, p. 141.
