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Каждый читатель - тот же поэт, каждое стихотворение - любое другое. Ни минуты не стоя на месте, поэзия никуда не спешит. В разговоре каждая фраза предвосхищает следующую: у этой цепи есть начало и конец. В стихах первая фраза содержит последнюю, как последняя - первую. Поэзия - единственный способ противостоять линейному времени, так называемому прогрессу.


Octavio Paz


#philosophy #poetry #literary-criticism

Стихи нельзя объяснить - только понять.


Octavio Paz


#philosophy #poetry #literary-criticism

У влюбленного в безмолвие поэта есть одно спасение - речь.


Octavio Paz


#philosophy #poetry #literary-criticism

Like billiard balls colliding our courses were altered.


Linda Collison


#philosophical-musings #the-butterfly-effect #historical-fiction

In Boston they ask, how much does he know? In New York, how much is he worth? In Philadelphia, who were his parents?


Mark Twain


#new-york-city #philadelphia #new-york-city

la vida sólo puede ser entendida mirando hacia atrás; aunque deba ser vivida mirando hacia adelante


Søren Kierkegaard


#philosophy #vida

Many feel that writers are a dime a dozen, so the goal is to break through and make it to the value of a penny.


Wil Zeus


#philosophical #thought-provoking-humourous #thought-provoking

Imagine that you were on the threshold of this fairytale, sometime billions of years ago when everything was created. And you were able to choose whether you wanted to be born to a life on this planet at some point. You wouldn’t know when you were going to be born, nor how long you’d live for, but at any event it wouldn’t be more than a few years. All you’d know was that, if you chose to come into the world at some point, you’d also have to leave it again one day and go away from everything. This might cause you a good deal of grief, as lots of people think that life in the great fairytale is so wonderful that the mere thought of it ending can bring tears to their eyes. Things can be so nice here that it’s terribly painful to think that at some point the days will run out. What would you have chosen, if there had been some higher power that had gave you the choice? Perhaps we can imagine some sort of cosmic fairy in this great, strange fairytale. What you have chosen to live a life on earth at some point, whether short or long, in a hundred thousand or a hundred million years? Or would you have refused to join in the game because you didn’t like the rules? (...) I asked myself the same question maybe times during the past few weeks. Would I have elected to live a life on earth in the firm knowledge that I’d suddenly be torn away from it, and perhaps in the middle of intoxicating happiness? (...) Well, I wasn’t sure what I would have chosen. (...) If I’d chosen never to the foot inside the great fairytale, I’d never have known what I’ve lost. Do you see what I’m getting at? Sometimes it’s worse for us human beings to lose something dear to us than never to have had it at all.


Jostein Gaarder


#philosophy #imagination

The ways of fate are indeed hard to understand. If there is not some compensation hereafter, then the world is a cruel jest.


Arthur Conan Doyle


#sherlock-holmes

There is a danger there - a very real danger to humanity. Consider, Watson, that the material, the sensual, the worldly would all prolong their worthless lives. The spiritual would not avoid the call to something higher. It would be the survival of the least fit. What sort of cesspool may not our poor world become?


Arthur Conan Doyle


#longevity #morality #philosophy #sherlock-holmes






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