“To begin, at the beginning…”
Source: Under Milk Wood
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Dylan Thomas50
Welsh poet and writer 1914–1953Related quotes
“Where do begin, he asked, Where you always have to begin, at the beginning”
José Saramago book The Cave
Source: The Cave (2000), p. 53 (Vintage 2003)
“Everywhere there is, at most, only a beginning of beginnings.”
Sri Aurobindo (1872–1950) Indian nationalist, freedom fighter, philosopher, yogi, guru and poet
The Renaissance in India (1918)
Context: To attempt to penetrate through the indeterminate confusion of present tendencies and first efforts in order to foresee the exact forms the new creation will take, would be an effort of very doubtful utility. One might as well try to forecast a harmony from the sounds made by the tuning of the instrument. In one direction or another we may just detect certain decisive indications, but even these are only first indications and we may be quite sure that much lies behind them that will go far beyond anything that they yet suggest. This is true whether in religion and spirituality or thought and science, poetry and art or society and politics. Everywhere there is, at most, only a beginning of beginnings.
“Real power begins where secrecy begins.”
Hannah Arendt book The Origins of Totalitarianism
Part 3, Ch. 12, § 1.
The Origins of Totalitarianism (1951)
“A mother is always the beginning. She is how things begin.”
Amy Tan book The Bonesetter's Daughter
Source: The Bonesetter's Daughter
“Endings are beginnings, and beginnings are ours to turn into something good.”
Elizabeth Chandler (1954) writer
Source: Everlasting
“The light
Begin to bleed,
Begin to breathe,
Begin to speak.
D'you know what?
I love you better now.”
Kate Bush (1958) British recording artist; singer, songwriter, musician and record producer
Song lyrics, Hounds of Love (1985), The Ninth Wave
