“Predigested food' should be inscribed over every hall of learning as a warning to all who do not wish to lose their own personalities and their original sense of judgment.” ShouldWishLosesEducationPersonalityJudgmentOriginalsHallsWarning Book:Mother Earth, a Monthly Magazine Devoted to the Social Science and Literature Source: Mother Earth, a Monthly Magazine Devoted to the Social Science and Literature
“... in nine out of ten cases the original wish to write is the wish to make oneself felt[ellipsis in source] the non-essential writer never gets past that wish.” WritingPastWishFeltCasesSourceTenEssentialsOriginalsOneselfNine Author:Elizabeth Bowen
“Let me define a garden as the meeting of raw nature and the human imagination in which both seek the fulfillment of their beauty. Every sign indicates that nature wants us and wishes for collaboration with us, just as we long for nature to be fulfilled in us. If our original state was to live in a garden, as Adam and Eve did, then a garden signals our absolute origins as well as our condition of eternity, while life outside the garden is time and temporality.” IfsWantHumansWellsLongStatesTimeWishImaginationBeautyConditionsGardenLet MeEternityAbsolutesOriginalsMeetingsFulfillmentCollaborationAdamFulfilledSignalsWant UAdam And EveHuman ImaginationTemporality Author:Thomas Moore
“An original something, dear maid, you would wish me to write; but how shall I begin? For I'm sure I have not original in me, Excepting Original Sin.” WritingWishSinOriginalsDearMaidsOriginal Sin Author:Thomas Campbell