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Once, probably, I used to think that vagueness was a loftier kind of poetry, truer to the depths of consciousness, and maybe when I started to read mathematics and science back in the mid-70s I found an unexpected lyricism in the necessarily precise language that scientists tend to use My instinct, my superstition is that the closer I see a thing and the more accurately I describe it, the better my chances of arriving at a certain sensuality of expression.


Don DeLillo


#science

There are universal laws at work, even here. The Law of Attraction; the Law of Correspondence; and the Law of Karma. That is: like attracts like; as within, so without; and what goes around comes around.


H.M. Forester


#law-of-attraction #law-of-correspondence #karma

I have only made this letter longer because I have not had the time to make it shorter." (Letter 16, 1657)


Blaise Pascal


#conciseness #correspondence #humor #letters #pithy

If you engage people on a vital, important level, they will respond.


Edward Bond


#important #level #people #respond #vital

When infuriated by an outrageous column, do not be suckered into responding with an abusive e-mail. Pundits so targeted thumb through these red-faced electronic missives with delight, saying 'Hah! Got to 'em.'


William Safire


#delight #e-mail #electronic #got #into

We would never comment on private correspondence.


Prince Charles


#correspondence #never #private #would

My character Lena is somebody who responds to people in a very simple way. I didn't have to take myself off to a darkened room to concentrate, I just had to try and be open. It's an interesting, subtle relationship.


Emily Watson


#concentrate #darkened #had #i #interesting

Kennedy did not have to run the risk of having his ideas and his words shortened and adulterated by a correspondent. This was the television era, not only in campaigning, but in holding the presidency.


Hugh Sidey


#campaigning #correspondent #did #era #having

By the general process of epic poetry, I mean the way this form of art has constantly responded to the profound needs of the society in which it was made.


Lascelles Abercrombie


#constantly #epic #epic poetry #form #general

For no continuity of social act is possible without a corresponding social status and the many different kinds of act required in an industrial state, with its high degree of specialization, make for corresponding classification of status.


Kenneth Burke


#classification #continuity #corresponding #degree #different






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