"The idea of the person enters poetics where art and reality, or intentionality and circumstance, meet."

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Source : Lyn Hejinian (2000). “The Language of Inquiry”, p.207, Univ of California Press

Lyn Hejinian

#Art Quotes #Reality Quotes #Ideas Quotes

“Don't blame me for the fact that competent programming, as I view it as an intellectual possibility, will be too difficult for the average programmer, you must not fall into the trap of rejecting a surgical technique because it is beyond the capabilities of the barber in his shop around the corner.”
“Bean, what's one step worse then a fashion don't?....a fashion don't even THINK about it.”
“If orange trees grew all over the country, you couldn't sell oranges. Â Do you understand that? Â So, all our decision making is based upon scarcity or the availability of resources. Â If we have a shortage of any kind of resource, we put all the labs to work on making substitute materials. Â People always worry about 'What if we run out of a certain material?', but we have enough technology today to make thousands of different substitutes.”
“Shakespeare brings us to know ourselves. Dante, with his dissection of all others, bids us to know one another.”
“Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.”

Source : Hermann Hesse (1980). “Six Novels: With Other Stories and Essays”
“Each one of us must in the end choose for himself how far he would like to leave our collective fate to the wayward vagaries of popular assemblies For myself it would be most irksome to be ruled by a bevy of Platonic Guardians, even if I knew how to choose them, which I assuredly do not I should miss the stimulus of living in a society where I have, at least theoretically, some part in the direction of public affairs.”
“But you, youâ€™ve always been the rain, the wind, inside my mind. I taste you when I sleep, when I wake, when I breathe.”
“I want to bring a voice back to the community. I think we haven't received our fair share of resources.”

Source : "Candidate's trying to woo new voters". New York Daily News, August 15, 2002.

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