
“That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.”
Source: Biographia Literaria (1817), Ch. XIV
Source: Of Love and Other Demons
“That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.”
Source: Biographia Literaria (1817), Ch. XIV
“See those trees
Bend in the wind
I feel they've got a lot more sense than me
You see I try to resist…”
Song lyrics, The Red Shoes (1993)
Source: Quotes from secondary sources, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers, 1895, P. 245.
"In Defence of Anger" from Essays from Epilogue (Manchester: Carcanet, 2001)
“A creative life cannot be sustained by approval any more than it can be destroyed by criticism.”
“We are more than our base desires, and our lives are not sustained by gratifying them.”
The Divine Commodity: Discovering A Faith Beyond Consumer Christianity (2009, Zondervan)