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“The end of poetry is not to create a physical condition which shall give pleasure to the mind... The end of poetry is not an after-effect, not a pleasurable memory of itself, but an immediate, constant and even unpleasant insistence upon itself.”

Giving Mind Ends Memories Pleasure Conditions Effects Constant Poetry Is Insistence

Author:Laura Riding

“Old age is as forgetful as youth, and more incorrigible; it displays the same inattentiveness to conditions; its memory becomes self-repeating and degenerates into an instinctive reaction, like a bird's chirp.”

Self Age Memories Conditions Youth Bird Reactions Old Age Display Degenerates Forgetful Incorrigible

Book:The Life of Reason: Introduction and Reason in Common Sense

Source: The Life of Reason: Introduction and Reason in Common Sense

“The reader brings to the work personality traits, memories of past events, present needs and preoccupations, a particular mood of the moment and a particular physical condition. These and many other elements in a never-to-be-duplicated combination determine his response to the text.”

Needs Moments Past Memories Conditions Events Particular Personality Reader Elements Response Determine Mood Combination Traits Preoccupation Personality Traits Past Events

Book:Transactions with literature: a fifty-year perspective : for Louise M. Rosenblatt

Source: Transactions with literature: a fifty-year perspective : for Louise M. Rosenblatt

“Like his admirer Samuel Beckett, Johnson locates his voices among conditions of such deprivation that even the most miserable memories are gilded by comparison: this paradox fuels equal parts of comedy and pathos. Never sentimental, at once corrosive and elegiac, House Mother Normal is a remarkable achievement.”

Mother House Voice Memories Comedy Conditions Equal Normal Achievement Miserable Fuel Remarkable Comparison Paradox Sentimental Johnson Deprivation Admirer Pathos Beckett Gilded

Author:James Marcus

“It struck me that the popularity of Christmas is a matter of web-like consciousness. Childhood conditions us to relax and expand at Christmas, to forget petty worries and irritations and think in terms of universal peace. And so Christmas is the nearest to mystical experience that most human beings ever approach, with its memories of Dickens and Irving's Bracebridge Hall.”

“The task of the architect is to encompass everything about the site, starting from the concrete conditions and the sensory impressions created by those, to memories of the place, through empathy to vision.”

Memories Vision Conditions Empathy Tasks Starting Impression Architect Concrete Site Sensory

Author:Jean Nouvel

“Because we live in a condition of ubiquitous music and media, and near infinite technological memory, it is much easier for local cultures to find an audience that resonates with their music, whether local or globally.”

Culture Memories Audience Conditions Media Easier Infinite Locals Technological

Author:Kode9

“Memory is useful because it gives us a sense of continuity. But memory is also imprisoning because it conditions us in predictable ways.”

Way Giving Memories Conditions Continuity Predictable

Author:Deepak Chopra