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Quotes About Creation

Holmes smiled tightly. "I discovered, Mr. James," he said as he leaned closer, "that I was not a real person. I am…how would a literary person such as yourself put it? I am, the evidence has proven to me most conclusively, a literary construct. Some ink-stained scribbler's creation. A mere fictional character.
~ Dan Simmons
We are created for precisely this sort of suffering. In the end, it is all we are, these limpid tide pools of self-consciousness between crashing waves of pain. We are destined and designed to bear our pain with us, hugging it tight to our bellies like the young Spartan thief hiding a wolf cub so it can eat away our insides. What other creature in God's wide domain would carry the memory
~ Dan Simmons
The strongest beings are those who sing themselves into existence.
~ Dan Simmons
I learned that poets aren't God, but if there is a God … or anything approaching a God … he's a poet. And a failed one at that.
~ Dan Simmons
To be a true poet is to become God.
~ Dan Simmons
Is there another Life? Shall I awake and find all this a dream? There must be, we cannot be created for this sort of suffering." Oh, Fanny, if only you knew! We are created for precisely this sort of suffering. In the end, it is all we are, these limpid tide pools of self-consciousness between crashing waves of pain.
~ Dan Simmons
Despite our fatal addiction to the toys granted us by our own creations.
~ Dan Simmons
No lifetime is long enough for those who wish to create, Raul. Or for those who simply wish to understand themselves and their lives.
~ Dan Simmons
We have made some progress, thought Gladstone, despite the inertia forced upon us by the Core. Despite the near-death of science. Despite our fatal addiction to the toys granted us by our own creations.
~ Dan Simmons
Is there another Life? Shall I awake and find all this a dream? There must be, we cannot be created for this sort of suffering.
~ Dan Simmons
relationship between creatures and their creators, the love between parent and children, artists and their art, all creators and their creations. The poem celebrated love and loyalty but teetered on the brink of nihilism with its constant thread of corruption through love of power, human ambition and intellectual hubris. Martin
~ Dan Simmons
no book or poem is ever finished, merely abandoned.
~ Dan Simmons
The sculptor Pete Garcia is found in his studio Ã¢â'¬Â¦ and in his bedroom Ã¢â'¬Â¦ and in the yard beyond.
~ Dan Simmons
Mis primeros poemas eran lamentables. Como la mayoría de los malos poetas, yo no me daba cuenta de ello, seguro en mi arrogancia de que el simple acto de crear daba cierto valor a los indignos abortos que alumbraba.
~ Dan Simmons
In the beginning was the Word. In the end Ã¢â'¬Â¦ past honor, past life, past caring Ã¢â'¬Â¦ In the end will be the Word.
~ Dan Simmons
Despite the near-death of science. Despite our fatal addiction to the toys granted us by our own creations.
~ Dan Simmons
Las Parcas crearon e inicialmente controlaron el artefacto físico conocido como Alcaudón.
~ Dan Simmons
In the beginning was the Word. In the end…past honor, past life, past caring… In the end will be the Word.
~ Dan Simmons
If there is a god [...] he's a poet. And a failed one at that.
~ Dan Simmons
Knowing what you know, you're more of a daughter to Paul than you can possibly imagine. You take something that isn't your own and you breathe life into it. You create it—and it becomes your creation. You are an agent to help my brother express the finest kind of love.
~ Dani Shapiro
You take something that isn't your own and you breathe life into it. You create it—and it becomes your creation. You are an agent to help my brother express the finest kind of love.
~ Dani Shapiro
todos somos como la arcilla en manos del alfarero y ninguna vasija podía preguntarle: «¿por qué me has hecho así?».
~ Daniel Defoe
Sure we are all made by some secret Power, who formed the earth and sea, the air and sky. 
~ Daniel Defoe
Le traducteur de ce livre n'est point un traducteur, c'est tout bonnement un poète qui s'est pris de belle passion et de courage. Une des plus belles créations du génie anglais courait depuis un siècle par les rues avec des haillons sur le corps, de la boue sur la face et de la paille dans les cheveux;
~ Daniel Defoe