"Only by affirming the animateness of perceived things do we allow our words to emerge directly from the depths of our ongoing reciprocity with the world."

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Source : David Abram (2012). “The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World”, p.56, Vintage

David Abram

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“Everything went together perfectly, and this is what I mean by knowing. I didn't have to analyze anything. I just recognized what was in front of me. All I had to do was set up and take the picture.”

Source : Wynn Bullock, Barbara Bullock-Wilson (1984). “Wynn Bullock, photographing the nude: the beginnings of a quest for meaning”, Gibbs Smith
“Intuition is neither a feeling, an inspiration nor a disorderly sympathy but a fully developed method.”
“So I suppose poetry, language, the shaping of it, was and remains for me an effort to make sense out of essentially senseless situations.”
“Everything excellent is as difficult as it is rare.”
“It's only through listening that you learn, and I never want to stop learning.”
“Imagination is the key to my lyrics. The rest is painted with a little science fiction.”
“One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.”

Source : "Some of the Dharma". Book by Jack Kerouac, 1997.
“Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America. Imagination led Franklin to discover electricity.”

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