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“It is never the thing but the version of the thing: The fragrance of the woman not her self, Her self in her manner not the solid block, The day in its color not perpending time, Time in its weather, our most sovereign lord, The weather in words and words in sounds of sound.”

Self Poetry Time Sound Lord Color Poet Perception Versions Weather Block Sovereign Fragrance

Book:The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens

Source: The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens

“I think there's a perception of me that I'm the dark lord of all that is scary and gory, but that's completely false. I love musicals. My house is very bright and lit. It's not what people would really expect from a Saw director, but I think that's what allows me to do the things that I do.”

People Thinking House Dark Lord Saws Directors Perception Scary Lit I Love Music

Author:Darren Lynn Bousman

“In Lords of Rainbow I start out by taking away color from the world, and in the process show color's vital place in our lives. At least I hope that by the end of the book it's a portion of what the reader comes away with - a sense of how much color perception enriches our lives and how its lack can make our sensory experience incomplete.”

World Book Ends Shows Process Lord Our Lives Color Reader Perception Portions Rainbow Incomplete Sensory

Author:Vera Nazarian

“No waving of enchanted wands but heightened perception. No magic objects, but a transformed and enhanced reality. No spells or chants, but the raw power of the human will to enact supernatural change upon the universal fabric. This is the kind of "magic" that fills Lords of Rainbow - elemental, organic, humanistic - an extension of reality.”

Humans Kind Reality Lord Magic Objects Perception Universal Spells Transformed Rainbow Fabric Extensions Enchanted Wands Elementals Humanistic Human Will

Author:Vera Nazarian

“It's quite possible we may actually be looking at some kind of super-sanity here. A brilliant new modification of human perception, more suited to urban life at the end of the twentieth century...He creates himself each day. He sees himself as the lord of misrule and the world as a theatre of the absurd.”

World Humans Kind May Ends Lord Century Perception Theatre Brilliant Absurd Each Day Sanity Urban Twentieth Century Modification Urban Life

Author:Grant Morrison

“My philosophy has always been to try to put myself into roles and films that are different. That intensified after 'Lord of the Rings' because it was so massive, but it's something I've always believed in - wanting to change people's perceptions and challenge myself as an actor.”

People Trying Different Philosophy Film Actors Challenges Lord Roles Perception Rings Massive Always Believe

Author:Elijah Wood

“Lord, enlighten thou our enemies. Sharpen their wits, give acuteness to their perceptions, and consecutiveness and clearness to their reasoning powers: we are in danger from their folly, not from their wisdom; their weakness is what fills us with apprehension, not their strength.”

Giving Lord Enemy Danger Perception Weakness Wit Reasoning Folly Enlightening Apprehension Clearness

Book:Dissertations and Discussions: Political, Philosophical, and Historical

Source: Dissertations and Discussions: Political, Philosophical, and Historical

“Oh my God. Lift me up out of this illusion, Lord. Heal my perception that I might know only reality and only you.”

Knows Reality Might Lord Perception Illusion Heal Lifts Lift Me Up

Author:Bill Hicks