Rob Hendricks > Rob's Quotes

“When we have found all the mysteries and lost all the meaning, we will be alone, on an empty shore.”
― Tom Stoppard, Arcadia

“Listen with your eyes because here you cannot decipher what is said out of the effort of mouths.”
― Myung Mi Kim, Dura

“I tried each thing, only some were immortal and free.”
― John Ashbery, Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror

“There is/no reasoning with need.”
― Claudia Rankine, The End of the Alphabet: Poems

“It seems to me that every time we humans announce that here is the thing that makes us unique--our featherless bipedality, our tool-using, our language--some other species comes along to snatch it away. If modesty were a human trait, we'd have learned to be more cautious over the years.”
― Karen Joy Fowler, We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves

“I was eventually to become one person, gathered up maybe, during a pause, at a comma.”
― Lyn Hejinian

“But where the danger is, also grows the saving power.”
― Friedrich Hölderlin

“For our generation walks as in Hades, without the divine.”
― Friedrich Holderlin

“The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness. ”
― Michel de Montaigne

“On the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom.”
― Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays

“Your silence will not protect you.”
― Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

“The import of a work of art -- its essential or artistic import -- can never be stated in discursive language. A work of art is an expressive form, and therefore a symbol, but not a symbol which points beyond itself so that one's thought passes on to the concept symbolized. The idea remains bound up in the form that makes it conceivable.”
― Suzanne Langer

“When liberty is mentioned, we must always be careful to observe whether it is not really the assertion of private interests which is thereby designated.”
― Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

“The summer demands and takes away too much. /But night, the reserved, the reticent, gives more than it takes”
― John Ashbery, Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror

“Most reckless things are beautiful in some way, and recklessness is what makes experimental art beautiful, just as religions are beautiful because of the strong possibilities that they are founded on nothing.”
― John Ashbery

“I tried to fit language into the shape of usefulness. The world moves through words as if the bodies the words reflect do not exist.”
― Claudia Rankine, Don’t Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric

“It’s the job that’s never started as takes longest to finish, as my old gaffer used to say.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings

“A great work of art is like a dream. To grasp its meaning, one must allow oneself to be shaped by it, the way it has shaped the poet.”
― C.G. Jung, The Spirit in Man, Art and Literature

“The reader became the book; and summer night
Was like the conscious being of the book.”
― Wallace Stevens

“There is no Archimedean point from which to judge, since the psyche is indistinguishable from its manifestations. The psyche is the object of psychology, and -fatally enough- also its subject. There is no getting away from this fact.
"Psychology and Religion" (1938). In CW 11: Psychology and Religion: West and East. P.8”
― C.G. Jung, Psychology and Religion

“You are the music while the music lasts.”
― T.S. Eliot

“Man only plays when he is in the fullest sense of the word a human being, and he is only fully a human being when he plays”
― Friedrich von Schiller

“It matters what you call a thing.”
― Solmaz Sharif, Look: Poems