„This sudden and unexpected revelation of Shakespeare overwhelmed me. The lightning-flash of his genius revealed the whole heaven of art to me, illuminating its remotest depths in a single flash. I recognised the meaning of real grandeur, real beauty, and the real dramatic truth.“

„Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.“

—  Franz Grillparzer austrian dramatic and writer 1791 - 1872

„To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry.“

—  Gaston Bachelard French writer and philosopher 1884 - 1962

A Retrospective Glance at the Lifework of a Master of Books
Fragments of a Poetics of Fire (1988)

„The real wonders of life lie in the depths. Exploring the depths for truths is the real wonder which the child and the artist know: magic and power lie in truth.“

—  Anaïs Nin writer of novels, short stories, and erotica 1903 - 1977

Zdroj: The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 4: 1944-1947

„Poetic truth is different from scientific truth since it reveals the real in its qualitative uniqueness and not in its quantitative universality.“

—  Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan Indian philosopher and statesman who was the first Vice President and the second President of India 1888 - 1975

Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Kontext: Poetic truth is different from scientific truth since it reveals the real in its qualitative uniqueness and not in its quantitative universality. Poetry is the language of the soul, while prose is the language of science. The former is the language of mystery, of devotion, of religion. Prose lays bare its whole meaning to the intelligence, while poetry plunges us in the mysterium tremendum of life and suggests the truths that cannot be stated.

„Give me lust, baby.
Flash.
Give me malice.
Flash.
Give me detached existentialist ennui.
Flash.
Give me rampant intellectualism as a coping mechanism.
Flash.“

—  Chuck Palahniuk, kniha Invisible Monsters

Zdroj: Invisible Monsters

„I have a meanness inside of me, real as an organ.“

—  Gillian Flynn, kniha Dark Places

Zdroj: Dark Places

„You love me. Real or not real?
I tell him, Real.“

—  Suzanne Collins, kniha Mockingjay

Zdroj: Mockingjay

„What! Think you that my flashes show me
Only in lightnings to excel?
Believe me, friends, you do not know me,
For I can thunder quite as well.“

—  Heinrich Heine, Wartet nur

Wartet nur! [Only Wait!] in Poems for the Times ; also in Poems of Heinrich Heine: Three Hundred and Twenty-five Poems (1917) Selected and translated by Louis Untermeyer, p. 262

„His rapid descents from the hyper-tragic to the infra-colloquial, though sometimes productive of great effect, are often unreasonable. To see him act, is like reading Shakespeare by flashes of lightning.“

—  Samuel Taylor Coleridge English poet, literary critic and philosopher 1772 - 1834

17 April 1823.
Table Talk (1821–1834)
Kontext: Kean is original; but he copies from himself. His rapid descents from the hyper-tragic to the infra-colloquial, though sometimes productive of great effect, are often unreasonable. To see him act, is like reading Shakespeare by flashes of lightning. I do not think him thorough-bred gentleman enough to play Othello.

„The real me lives in words, not in what words mean.“

—  Anne Sexton poet from the United States 1928 - 1974

„All that is real in me is God; all that is real in God is I. The gulf between God and me is thus bridged. Thus by knowing God, we find that the kingdom of heaven is within us.“

—  Swami Vivekananda Indian Hindu monk and phylosopher 1863 - 1902

Pearls of Wisdom

„Poetry speaks to you either at first sight or not at all. A flash of revelation and a flash of response.“

—  J.M. Coetzee, kniha Disgrace

Zdroj: Disgrace

„The photographer in my head says:
Give me peace.
Flash.
Give me release.
Flash.“

—  Chuck Palahniuk, kniha Invisible Monsters

Zdroj: Invisible Monsters

„I think beauty comes from actually knowing who you are. That's real beauty to me.“

—  Ellen DeGeneres American stand-up comedian, television host, and actress 1958

„An unexpected vision appeared to me. A circle not unlike a wreath woven from rainbow and lightnings, whirled from heaven to earth with a stupendous, velocity, blinding me by its brilliance.“

—  P. D. Ouspensky Russian esotericist 1878 - 1947

Card XXI : The World http://www.sacred-texts.com/tarot/sot/sot05.htm
The Symbolism of the Tarot (1913)
Kontext: An unexpected vision appeared to me. A circle not unlike a wreath woven from rainbow and lightnings, whirled from heaven to earth with a stupendous, velocity, blinding me by its brilliance. And amidst this light and fire I heard music and soft singing, thunderclaps and the roar of a tempest, the rumble of falling mountains and earthquakes.
The circle whirled with a terrifying noise, touching the sun and the earth, and, in the centre of it I saw the naked, dancing figure of a beautiful young woman, enveloped by a light, transparent scarf, in her hand she held a magic wand.
Presently the four apocalyptical beasts began to appear on the edges of the circle; one with the face of a lion, another with the face of a man, the third, of an eagle and the fourth, of a bull.

„I say the real and permanent grandeur of these States must be their religion.“

—  Walt Whitman, Starting from Paumanok

Starting from Paumanok. 7
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

„In many ways art is similar to religion. Its development consists not in new discoveries which invalidate the old truths (as is obviously the case in science). Its development consists in sudden illuminations, similar to lightning, in explosions, which burst in the sky like fireworks.... this illumination shows with blinding light new perspectives, new truths, which are basically nothing but the organic development, the further organic growth of the earlier wisdom... Was the New Testament possible without the Old? Could our time, that of the threshold of the 'third' revelation, be thinkable without the second?“

—  Wassily Kandinsky Russian painter 1866 - 1944

Zdroj: 1916 -1920, Autobiography', 1918, p. 33

„2144. He that has no Fools, Knaves nor Beggars in his Family, was begot by a Flash of Lightning.“

—  Thomas Fuller (writer) British physician, preacher, and intellectual 1654 - 1734

Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)

„He was the chief of all the horses; and when he snorted, it was a flash of lightning and his eyes were like the sunset star.“

—  Black Elk Oglala Lakota leader 1863 - 1950

Black Elk Speaks (1961)