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“My language is the sum total of myself.”
― Charles S. Peirce

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“If anyone comes to the gates of poetry and expects to become an adequate poet by acquiring expert knowledge of the subject without the Muses' madness, he will fail, and his self-controlled verses will be eclipsed by the poetry of men who have been driven out of their minds.”
― Plato, Phaedrus

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“Reality outran apprehension; Captain Ahab stood upon his quarter-deck.”
― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick

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“All things in the world of Nature are not controlled by Fate for the soul has a principle of its own.”
― Iamblichus

tags: philosophy

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“No free man needs a God; but was I free?
How fully I felt nature glued to me
And how my childish palate loved the taste
Half-fish, half-honey, of that golden paste!

My picture book was at an early age
The painted parchment papering our cage:
Mauve rings around the moon; blood-orange sun;
Twinned Iris; and that rare phenomenon
The iridule - when, beautiful and strange,
In a bright sky above a mountain range
One opal cloudlet in an oval form
Reflects the rainbow of a thunderstorm
Which in a distant valley has been staged -
For we are most artistically caged.”
― Vladimir Nabokov

tags: caged, nature

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