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  • As a rule, with me an unfinished [idea] is a thing that might as well be rubbed out. It's better, if there's something good in it that I might make use of elsewhere, to leave it at the back of my mind than on paper in a drawer. If I leave it in a drawer it remains the same thing but if it's in the memory it becomes transformed into something else.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Memories Quotes , Ideas Quotes
  • I don't want to succumb to the idea that for the generation, or generations, raised on television, the text is irrelevant or so intimidating that they won't deal with it. If you teach, you see this is not true. It may be that newer generations do not worship the text as some of their elders do.
  • 6 years ago



    Tags : Adrienne Rich Quotes , Ideas Quotes , Generations Quotes
  • The idea of beauty is the fundamental idea of everything. In the world we see only distortions of the fundamental idea, but art, by imagination, may lift itself to the height of this idea. Art is therefore akin to creation.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Leo Tolstoy Quotes , Art Quotes , Ideas Quotes
  • The life of Zen begins, therefore, in a disillusion with the pursuit of goals which do not really exist the good without the bad, the gratification of a self which is no more than an idea, and the morrow which never comes.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , Self Quotes , Ideas Quotes