Quotes About Creation

Narrow The heart that loves, the brain that contemplates, The life that wears, the spirit that creates One object, and one form, and builds thereby A sepulchre for its eternity. - Epipsychidion

Frente a dos proposiciones diametralmente opuestas, el cerebro cree la menos incomprensible: es más fácil suponer que el universo ha existido por toda la eternidad que concebir a un ser eterno con la capacidad de crearlo.

As flowers beneath May's footstep waken, As stars from Night's loose hair are shaken, As waves arise when loud winds call, Thoughts sprung where'er that step did fall.

One after another the greatest writers, poets, and artists confirm the fact that their work comes to them from beyond the threshold of consciousness.

It creates anew the universe after it has been annihilated in our minds by the recurrence of impressions blunted by reiteration.

And as this creation itself is poetry, so its creators were poets; and language was the instrument of their art

Nature does not count nor do integers occur in nature. Man made them all, integers and all the rest, Kronecker to the contrary notwithstanding.

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You can't go on like you're going to start really living one day like all this is some preamble to some great life thats magically going to appear. I'm a firm believer that you have to create your own miracles, don't hold out that there's something better waiting on the other side. It doesn't work that way. When you're gone, you're gone. Don't wait.

Split the atom's heart, and low Within it thou wilt find a sun.

To be a Christian is to live positively and not destructively, to make ugly things beautiful, and to make chaos meaningful.

Any damn fool can make something complex; it takes a genius to make something simple.

Destroy the thing, do it over several times. In each destroying of a beautiful discovery, the artist does not really suppress it, but rather transforms it, condenses it, makes it more substantial. What comes out in the end is the result of discarded finds.

A person who had no one would be well advised to cobble together some passable ghost. Breathe it into being and coax it along with words of love. Offer it each phantom crumb and shield it from harm with your body. As for me my only hope is for eternal nothingness and I hope it with all my heart.

Raise the question of what do we want to create together, even for an established institution.

beyond beginnings the earth her many tribes and clans their life songs merge into one chant- - And to each creation the heartline trail is etched in delicate memory pattern webs so intricate in a unity of day into night the seasons follow

Androgyny was a subject of some interest in Balzac's time. The Girodet painting of Endymion for which the castrato Zambinella served, in Balzac's fiction, as a far-off model offers a visual androgyny. And perhaps androgyny is a metaphor for the artist who creates life from his sole self and body.

Henry James in "The Lesson of Balzac" praised his precursor for giving his characters "the long rope," for acting themselves out. That grant of freedom to his created life was for James crucial to Balzac's success in representation of persons in the world. James saw Balzac's creation of character as ultimately motivated by love: "The love, as we call it, the joy in their communicated and exhibited

everything," Balzac claims, "is a mosaic.

A volte mi sembra che la terra non voglia che le cose durino, ma voglia che tutto crolli e che noi tutti che ne andiamo via. Che voglia tornare al principio, al giardino con i frutti e gli animali, prima che Dio diventasse ambizioso e rovinasse tutto. Avrebbe dovuto riposare al sesto giorno, non al settimo.

Freud could never be certain, he said, in view of his wide and early reading, whether what seemed like a new creation might not be the work instead of hidden channels of memory leading back to the notions of others absorbed, coming now anew into form he'd almost known within him was growing. He called it (the ghost of a) cryptomnesia. So we own and owe what we know.

Sometimes I write drunk and revise sober, and sometimes I write sober and revise drunk. But you have to have both elements in creation — the Apollonian and the Dionysian, or spontaneity and restraint, emotion and discipline.

Everything becomes rubbish in the end. We sometimes wonder if people weren't invented as an extra-quick way of making rubbish.

The purpose of a business is to create a customer.