"Key metaphors help determine what and how we perceive and how we think about our perceptions."

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Source : "Honored literary scholar M.H. Abrams continues his labors (of love)" by Linda Grace-Kobas, news.cornell.edu. June 11, 1999.

M. H. Abrams

#Thinking Quotes #Keys Quotes #Perception Quotes

“I have a knife collection.”
“I never know where I'm headed when I'm working on a book.”
“I'm watching the show and I'm watching the audience watch the show. Because once you leave the rehearsal room, you have space and you can see it. You can watch them watch it. You can't see your work, really, until you're in the theater. You have no perspective. That's not part of my job, to go, "Oh my God, they're so brilliant." I'm not required to swoon.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Two messengers covered with dust come to bid me fly, but I wait for him.”

Source : Dolley Madison (1886). “Memoirs and Letters of Dolly Madison: Wife of James Madison, President of the United States”, Boston ; New York, Houghton, Mifflin
“I saw a poet chase a butterfly in a meadow. He put his net on a bench where a boy sat reading a book. It's a misfortune that it is usually the other way round.”
“Don't put blankets over the drum! Open completely. Let your spirit ear listen to the green dome's passionate murmur.”
“If they played more blues, people would just get it - they try to hold it back but just about can't hold it back now because the blues is really going.”
“Right now, I feel like I can take on the world. Ambition is the perfect word for where I am in my life right now.”

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