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Nov. 28th, 2006 10:14 amI quite like this quote, which is off a box of Celestial Seasonings Imperial Peach white tea (very good, if you're wondering):
An enchanted life has many moments when the heart is overwhelmed with beauty and the imagination is electrified by some haunting quality in the world… Enchantment may be a state of rapture and ecstasy in which the soul comes to the foreground, and the literal concerns of survival and daily preoccupation at least momentarily fade into the background. - Thomas Moore
I believe that's Sir Thomas Moore, 1478-1535, UK statesman, among other things, and not the Thomas Moore who wrote Care of the Soul (and is currently alive), or the Thomas Moore who was an Irish poet, but my brief search was somewhat inconclusive--I don't entirely trust a lot of internet sources. I was right not to trust the internet; it is in fact a quote from Thomas Moore, author of Care of the Soul. Oh well.
It did occur to me while musing over this quote that there are some possible problematic assumptions of privelege packed into it, but I still like it--and that experience, of profound moments of beauty, a haunting quality in the world galvanizing the imagination--that is central, for me, to writing, or to any art, from cooking to zoology.
It did occur to me while musing over this quote that there are some possible problematic assumptions of privelege packed into it, but I still like it--and that experience, of profound moments of beauty, a haunting quality in the world galvanizing the imagination--that is central, for me, to writing, or to any art, from cooking to zoology.
Two other quotes I found while searching, which I like very well:
The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge. - Albert Einstein
The Possible's slow fuse is lit
By the Imagination. - Emily Dickinson
The last, especially, speaks to me; writing has always been about expanding the perceived limits of the possible for me. And I do love Emily.
November continues a bit rough. But there is much good.
By the Imagination. - Emily Dickinson
The last, especially, speaks to me; writing has always been about expanding the perceived limits of the possible for me. And I do love Emily.
November continues a bit rough. But there is much good.
