When we suffer anguish we return to early childhood because that is the period in which we first learnt to suffer the experience of total loss.
JOHN BERGER
Never again shall a single story be told as though it were the only one.
More John Berger Quotes
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When we suffer anguish we return to early childhood because that is the period in which we first learnt to suffer the experience of total loss.
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It is not usually possible in a poem or a story to make the relationship between particular and universal fully explicit. Those who try to do so end up writing parables.
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The past is the one thing we are not prisoners of. We can do with the past exactly what we wish. What we can’t do is to change its consequences.
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The stars threaded on that line were like events threaded on a narrative. Imagining the constellations did not of course change the stars, nor did it change the black emptiness that surrounds them. What it changed was the way people read the night sky.
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Every authentic poem contributes to the labor of poetry… to bring together what life has separated or violence has torn apart…
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Today the discredit of words is very great.
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When he painted a road, the roadmakers were there in his imagination, when he painted the turned earth of a ploughed field, the gesture of the blade turning the earth was included in his own act.
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The zoo cannot but disappoint.
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It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open.
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A drawing is an autobiographical record of one’s discovery of an event – either seen, remembered or imagined. A ‘finished’ work is an attempt to construct an event in itself.
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The opposite of love is not to hate but to separate. If love and hate have something in common it is because, in both cases, their energy is that of bringing and holding together
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Without ethics man has no future. This is to say mankind without them cannot be itself.
JOHN BERGER