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consumed
«The artist must create a spark before he can make a fire and before art is born, the artist must be ready to be consumed by the fire of his own creation.»
«I think that cars today are almost the exact equivalent of the great Gothic cathedrals: I mean the supreme creation of an era, conceived with passion by unknown artists, and consumed in image if not in usage by a whole population which appropriates t»
Author: Roland Barthes
(Critic)
| Keywords:
appropriates, cars, cathedrals, conceived, consumed, era, Gothic, population, usage
«I would define the poetic effect as the capacity that a text displays for continuing to generate different readings, without ever being completely consumed.»
Author: Umberto Eco
(Critic, Novelist)
| Keywords:
consumed, continuing, displays, generate, poetic, readings, text
«O LORD, are not thine eyes upon the truth? thou hast stricken them, but they have not grieved; thou hast consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they have refused to return.»
«So will I break down the wall that ye have daubed with untempered morter, and bring it down to the ground, so that the foundation thereof shall be discovered, and it shall fall, and ye shall be consumed in the midst thereof: and ye shall know that I am the LORD.»
«Now when Solomon had made an end of praying, the fire came down from heaven, and consumed the burnt offering and the sacrifices; and the glory of the LORD filled the house.»
«Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence.»
Author: Erma Bombeck
| Keywords:
coincidence, coincidences, consumed, dinners, eighteen, thanksgiving, twelve
«Life is languished away in the gloom of anxiety, and consumed in collecting resolutions which the next morning dissipates; in forming purposes which we scarcely hope to keep, and reconciling ourselves to our own cowardice by excuses which, while we»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| About:
Life
| Keywords:
anxiety, collecting, consumed, cowardice, dissipate, dissipated, dissipates, dissipating, excuses, forming, gloom, languished, languishes, languishing, purposes, reconciles, reconciling, resolutions, scarcely
«Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication.»
Author: Simone Weil
(Activist, Mystic, Philosopher)
| About:
Art,
Work
| Keywords:
consumed, district, districts, fabrication, The District, wines
