"A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say" Italo Calvino via @openculture http://t.co/kKghUmvOI3
— Luca Orlassino (@orlayesno) August 12, 2014
I think this makes a nice pairing with Ezra Pound—Literature is language charged with meaning. Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree. Also "Literature is news that STAYS news." (ABC of Reading)
“Every now and then, just sit there and listen, listen, listen.You’re paying your membership dues in the human race.” http://t.co/750Tb42rFt
— Explore (@Explorer) July 18, 2014
"When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen." - Ernest Hemingway #Quote
— Tiffany Shlain (@tiffanyshlain) July 18, 2014
A memory of a familiar line
There is a crack, a crack in everything That's how the light gets in. - Leonard Cohen
— Mark Ainslie (@mark_ainslie) July 9, 2014
and a startling discovery of a much older line at Tumblr
Don’t turn your head.
Keep looking
at the bandaged place.
That’s where
the Light enters you.
- Rumi
“A very little key will open a very heavy door.” ~Dickens "A very little book will open a very big world." ~The Chief http://t.co/zcG9PfdGrS
— Ministry of Stories (@Mini_Stories) July 4, 2014
This post from @ZenEssentials
"When the pools of perception are clear, everything appears 'as is." ~Zen Proverb
— Zen Essentials (@ZenEssentials) July 2, 2014
sent me searching for a citation for the familiar
William Blake~ When the doors of perception are cleansed man will see things as they truly are infinite.
— Paul Camilli (@PaulCamilli4330) July 3, 2014
I was familiar with Aldous Huxley's title, but not with William Blake as the source of the quotation.
On the way to having my doors of perception opened, I found a Huxley saying that calls Don Rumsfeld to mind.
There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception. Aldous Huxley pic.twitter.com/dXejoP2gs1
— Art Howard (@ALHphoto) July 1, 2014