#reveals

Reality only reveals itself when it is illuminated by a ray of poetry. ↗

— Georges Braque

#itself #only #poetry #ray #reality

A sudden silence in the middle of a conversation suddenly brings us back to essentials: it reveals how dearly we must pay for the invention of speech. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#brings #conversation #dearly #essentials #how

Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit. ↗

— e. e. cummings

#believe #curiosity #delight #experience #human

When Ulysses hears his own story sung by an epic poet and then he reveals his identity and the poet wants to continue singing, Ulysses isn't interested any longer. That's very astonishing. ↗

— Raymond Queneau

#astonishing #continue #epic #hears #his

Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self. ↗

— Alfred North Whitehead

#attracts #most #only #our #reveals

Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self. ↗

— Jean-Luc Godard

#attracts #most #only #our #reveals

Shakespeare reveals human nature brilliantly: he shines a light on our instinctive desire to dominate each other. ↗

— Edward Hall

#desire #dominate #each #human #human nature

Hide our ignorance as we will, an evening of wine soon reveals it. ↗

— Heraclitus

#hide #ignorance #our #reveals #soon