#revelation

Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal which the reader recognizes as his own. ↗

— Salvatore Quasimodo

#believes #feeling #his #interior #own

You make the movie through the cinematography - it sounds quite a simple idea, but it was like a huge revelation to me. ↗

— Nicolas Roeg

#huge #idea #like #make #me

The differences between revolution in art and revolution in politics are enormous. Revolution in art lies not in the will to destroy but in the revelation of what has already been destroyed. Art kills only the dead. ↗

— Harold Rosenberg

#art #art lies #been #between #dead

No one ever talks about the moment you found that you were white. Or the moment you found out you were black. That's a profound revelation. The minute you find that out, something happens. You have to renegotiate everything. ↗

— Toni Morrison

#black #ever #everything #find #found

When you're watching Psycho, there' s that moment when you have a visceral reaction to watching someone being stabbed. And then you have the intellectual revelation that you're not, and that's where the celebration comes in. ↗

— Penn Jillette

#celebration #comes #intellectual #moment #psycho

To the first class belong the Gospels and Acts; to the second, the Epistles; to the third, the Revelation. ↗

— Philip Schaff

#acts #belong #class #epistles #first

Secrecy involves a tension which, at the moment of revelation, finds its release. ↗

— Georg Simmel

#involves #moment #release #revelation #secrecy

It is disturbing to discover in oneself these curious revelations of the validity of the Darwinian theory. If it is true that we have sprung from the ape, there are occasions when my own spring appears not to have been very far. ↗

— Cornelia Otis Skinner

#appears #been #curious #darwinian #darwinian theory

Take away the Book of Mormon and the revelations, and where is our religion? We have none. ↗

— Joseph Smith, Jr.

#book #mormon #none #our #religion

Salvation cannot come without revelation. Men of the present time testify of heaven and hell, and have never seen either; and I will say that no man knows these things without this. ↗

— Joseph Smith, Jr.

#come #either #heaven #hell #i