"Corr stood here," Sean says wonderingly. "I would've died. He didn't have to stay." For a moment, I see that it doesn't matter that he didn't win. The fact of Corr's loyalty is a bigger thing than the ownership of him."

-- Maggie Stiefvater

#Loyalty Quotes #Winning Quotes #Facts Quotes

“We simulated the predator with livestock and the perennial grassland returned. Just put the whole back, and there it was. You'll find the scientific method never discovers anything. Observant, creative people make discoveries. But the scientific method protects us from cranks like me.”
“All our thoughts and concepts are called up by sense-experiences and have a meaning only in reference to these sense-experiences. On the other hand, however, they are products of the spontaneous activity of our minds; they are thus in no wise logical consequences of the contents of these sense-experiences. If, therefore, we wish to grasp the essence of a complex of abstract notions we must for the one part investigate the mutual relationships between the concepts and the assertions made about them; for the other, we must investigate how they are related to the experiences.”
“Play matters because it gives us a brief respite from the tyranny of apparent purpose.”
“Nobody looks at the moon in the afternoon, and this is the moment when it would most require our attention, since its existence is still in doubt.”
“I do feel that a poem needs not just space, but, ideally, space around that space - space for meditation, reverie, subliminal link-ups. I sense that poetry happens at a level above or below intelligence. It doesn't come into being at a purely rational level.”

Source : Source: www.poetrymagazines.org.uk
“We are not at the same place we were in 1973. This country today is drifting, moving steadily towards the pro-life position because the data is with us.”
“Normal consciousness is a state of stupor, in which the sensibility to the wholly real and responsiveness to the stimuli of the spirit are reduced. The mystics, knowing that man is involved in a hidden history of the cosmos, endeavor to awake from the drowsiness and apathy and to regain the state of wakefulness for their enchanted souls.”
“There is that elementary principle of organization in any art that nothing gets in anything else's way, and everything is at its own limit of possibilities.”

Source : Fairfield Porter, Rackstraw Downes (1979). “Fairfield Porter: art in its own terms : selected criticism, 1935-1975”, Taplinger Publishing Company

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