"Boris Pasternak: Unsafe Conduct", p. 14
The Myth Makers: European and Latin American Writers (1979)
“... it often gets scolded and cannot find a place of its own, almost because people invariably misunderstand its true nature.”
Writing on medieval geography in: Mittman, Asa Maps and Monsters in Medieval England https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Maps_and_Monsters_in_Medieval_England/2ancAAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=Natalia+Lozovsky&pg=PA27&printsec=frontcover (Taylor & Francis, 2013) p.27
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De l'Art de persuader ["On the Art of Persuasion"], written 1658; published posthumously.
Source: De l'art de persuader

“One age misunderstands another; and a petty age misunderstands all the others in its own ugly way.”
Source: Culture and Value (1980), p. 98e

Source: 1930s, Growing Up in New Guinea (1930), p. 281, as cited in: Lenora Foerstel, Angela Gilliam (1994) Confronting Margaret Mead: Scholarship, Empire, and the South Pacific. p. 84

1920s, Process and Reality: An Essay in Cosmology (1929)

Source: The Zen Teaching of "Homeless" Kodo (Kyoto: Kyoto Soto Zen Center, 1990), p. 72

Diary of an Unknown (1988), On Invisibility
Context: Poetry, being elegance itself, cannot hope to achieve visibility. In that case, you ask me, of what use is it? Of no use. Who will see it? No one. Which does not prevent it from being an outrage to modesty, though its exhibitionism is squandered on the blind. It is enough for poetry to express a personal ethic, which can then break away in the form of a work. It insists on living its own life. It becomes the pretext for a thousand misunderstandings that go by the name of glory...

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 139.