"A particular ikon an aid to devotion..." - Quote by C S Lewis
A particular ikon an aid to devotion may be itself a word of art, but that is logically accidental; its artistic merits will not make it a better ... ikon. They may make it a worse one.
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“The moment good taste knows itself, some of its goodness is lost.”
“Kindness consents very readily to the removal of its object – we have all met people whose kindness to animals is constantly leading them to kill animals lest they should suffer. Kindness, merely as such, cares not whether its object becomes good or bad, provided only that it escapes suffering.”
“Thus, and not otherwise, the world was made. Either something or nothing must depend on individual choices.”
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“Like a pianist runs her fingers over the keys, I'll search my mind for what to say. Now, the poem may want you to write it. And then sometimes you see a situation and think, 'I'd like to write about that.' Those are two different ways of being approached by a poem, or approaching a poem.”
“The great poet draws his creations only from out of his own reality.”
“The Play's the Thing, wherein I'll catch the conscience of the King.”
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“Monarchies, aristocracies, and religions....there was never a country where the majority of the people were in their secret hearts loyal to any of these institutions.”
“Everybody likes to go their own way–to choose their own time and manner of devotion.”
“There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings.”