“On the meridian of time, there is no injustice: there is only the poetry of motion creating the illusion of truth and drama.”
Source: Tropic of Cancer
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“Prose is private drama; poetry is corporate drama.”
Source: 1990s and beyond, The Book of Probes : Marshall McLuhan (2011), p. 275
“Truth and expansion go hand in hand. Truth creates growth. Lies and illusion prevent it.”
“For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion, of divine illusion.”
Introduction to Ward's English Poets (1880)
Context: For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion, of divine illusion. Poetry attaches its emotion to the idea; the idea is the fact. The strongest part of our religion today is its unconscious poetry.
“In all the illusions, you're the only truth that I need”
Source: Honest Illusions
“Infinite love is the only truth. Everything else is illusion.”
Variant: Infinite love is the only truth. Everything else is illusion.
Source: Davidicke.com
As translated at Gallery of Russian Thinkers … selected by Dmitry Olshansky (2005)<!-- by Richard Schain --> http://www.isfp.co.uk/russian_thinkers/nikolay_berdyaev.html
Dream and Reality (1949)
Context: There is no objective reality. But there is only an illusion of consciousness, there is only an objectivication of reality, which was created by the spirit. The origin of life is creativity, freedom; and the personality, subject, and spirit are the representatives of that origin, but not the nature, not the object.
“Men do not move mountains; it is only necessary to create the illusion that mountains move.”
As quoted in The Great Illusion, 1900-1914, Oron J. Hale, Harper & Row (1971) p. 109
Undated
“All spiritual practices are illusions created by illusionists to escape illusion.”