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Franz Grillparzer : Why do comparisons of words and tone poems (poetry and music) never take into consideration that the word is a mere signifier, but that the sound, aside from being a signifier, is also an object? # Poetry and Poets # Words # Music

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Lewis Thomas : " We pass the word around we ponder how the case is put by different people, we read the poetry we meditate over the literature we play the music we change our minds we reach an understanding. Society evolves this way, not by shouting each other down, but by the unique capacity of unique, individual human beings to comprehend each other. " # Poetry and Poets # Words # Music

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Randall Jarrell : " Sometimes it is hard to criticize, one wants only to chronicle. The good and mediocre books come in from week to week, and I put them aside and read them and think of what to say; but the "worthless" books come in day after day, like the cries and truck sounds from the street, and there is nothing that anyone could think of that is good enough for them. In the bad type of thin pamphlets, in hand-set lines on imported paper, people's hard lives and hopeless ambitions have expressed themselves more directly and heartbreakingly than they have ever expressed in any work of art: it is as if the writers had sent you their ripped-out arms and legs, with "This is a poem" scrawled on them in lipstick. After a while one is embarrassed not so much for them as for poetry, which is for these poor poets one more of the openings against which everyone in the end beats his brains out; and one finds it unbearable that poetry should be so hard to write — a game of Pin the Tail on the Donkey in which there is for most of the players no tail, no donkey, not even a booby prize. " # Poetry and Poets # Words # Music

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Yasunari Kawabata : " Myōe exchanged poems with Saigyo and the two discussed poetry together. The following is from the biography of Myoe by his disciple Kikai: "Saigyo frequently came and talked of poetry. His own attitude towards poetry, he said, was far from the ordinary. Cherry blossoms, the cuckoo, the moon, snow: confronted with all the manifold forms of nature, his eyes and his ears were filled with emptiness. And were not all the words that came forth true words? When he sang of the blossoms the blossoms were not on his mind, when he sang of the moon he did not think of the moon. As the occasion presented itself, as the urge arose, he wrote poetry. The red rainbow across the sky was as the sky taking on color. The white sunlight was as the sky growing bright. Yet the empty sky, by its nature, was not something to become bright. It was not something to take on color. With a spirit like the empty sky he gives color to all the manifold scenes but not a trace remained. In such poetry was the Buddha, the manifestation of the ultimate truth." Here we have the emptiness, the nothingness, of the Orient. My own works have been described as works of emptiness, but it is not to be taken for the nihilism of the West. The spiritual foundation would seem to be quite different. Dogen entitled his poem about the seasons, "Innate Reality", and even as he sang of the beauty of the seasons he was deeply immersed in Zen. " # Poetry and Poets # Words # Music

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Yasunari Kawabata : " "Among those who give thoughts to things, is there one who does not think of suicide?" With me was the knowledge that that fellow Ikkyu twice contemplated suicide. I have "that fellow", because the priest Ikkyu is known even to children as a most amusing person, and because anecdotes about his limitlessly eccentric behavior have come down to us in ample numbers. It is said of him that children climbed his knee to stroke his beard, that wild birds took feed from his hand. It would seem from all this that he was the ultimate in mindlessness, that he was an approachable and gentle sort of priest. As a matter of fact he was the most severe and profound of Zen priests. Said to have been the son of an emperor, he entered a temple at the age of six, and early showed his genius as a poetic prodigy. At the same time he was troubled with the deepest of doubts about religion and life. "If there is a god, let him help me. If there is none, let me throw myself to the bottom of the lake and become food for fishes." Leaving behind these words he sought to throw himself into a lake, but was held back. ... He gave his collected poetry the title "Collection of the Roiling Clouds", and himself used the expression "Roiling Clouds" as a pen name. In his collection and its successor are poems quite without parallel in the Chinese and especially the Zen poetry of the Japanese middle ages, erotic poems and poems about the secrets of the bedchamber that leave one in utter astonishment. He sought, by eating fish and drinking spirits and having commerce with women, to go beyond the rules and proscriptions of the Zen of his day, and to seek liberation from them, and thus, turning against established religious forms, he sought in the pursuit of Zen the revival and affirmation of the essence of life, of human existence, in a day civil war and moral collapse. " # Poetry and Poets # Words # Music

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Ken Wilber : " In other words, all of my books are lies. They are simply maps of a territory, shadows of a reality, gray symbols dragging their bellies across the dead page, suffocated signs full of muffled sound and faded glory, signifying absolutely nothing. And it is the nothing, the Mystery, the Emptiness alone that needs to be realized: not known but felt, not thought but breathed, not an object but an atmosphere, not a lesson but a life. " # Poetry and Poets # Words # Music

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Robert Frost : " There are tones of voices that mean more than words. " # Poetry and Poets # Words # Music

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Abigail Adams : " We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them. " # Poetry and Poets # Words # Music

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Anatole France : " The finest words in the world are only vain sounds if you cannot understand them. " # Poetry and Poets # Words # Music

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Patricia Fripp : " Words represent your intellect. The sound, gesture and movement represent your feelings. " # Poetry and Poets # Words # Music

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Lewis Carroll : " When I use a word, Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, it means just what I choose it to mean -- neither more nor less. " # Poetry and Poets # Words # Music

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Franz Grillparzer: " The cradle of the future is the grave of the past." # The future # Freedom # Power

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Franz Grillparzer: " Oh that wisdom was half as zealous for converts as ridicule." # Ridicule # Wisdom # Persuasion

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Franz Grillparzer: " As youth lives in the future, so the adult lives in the past: No one rightly knows how to live in the present." # Youth # Past # The future

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Franz Grillparzer: " Let the famous not denounce fame. Far from being empty and meaningless, it fills those it touches with divine power." # Fame # Love # Sex

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Franz Grillparzer: " Why do comparisons of words and tone poems (poetry and music) never take into consideration that the word is a mere signifier, but that the sound, aside from being a signifier, is also an object?" # Poetry and Poets # Words # Music

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Franz Grillparzer: " When mundane, lowly activities are at stake, too much insight is detrimental—far-sightedness errs in immediate concerns." # Fallibility # Mistakes # Faith

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Franz Grillparzer: " I'd wish the government took honest people into consideration, it shows enough consideration for scoundrels." # Government # Honesty # Politicians and Politics

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Franz Grillparzer: " I love the pride whose measure is its own eminence and not the insignificance of someone else." # Love # Success # Pride

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