„His style is chaos illumined by flashes of lightning.“
— Oscar Wilde, kniha The Decay of Lying
A reference to George Meredith's style.
The Decay of Lying (1889)
„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.“
— Hector Berlioz, Mémoires
Shakespeare, en tombant ainsi sur moi à l'improviste, me foudroya. Son éclair, en m'ouvrant le ciel de l'art avec un fracas sublime, m'en illumina les plus lointaines profondeurs. Je reconnus la vraie grandeur, la vraie beauté, la vraie vérité dramatiques.
Zdroj: Mémoires (1870), Ch. 18, p. 66
Originál
Shakespeare, en tombant ainsi sur moi à l'improviste, me foudroya. Son éclair, en m'ouvrant le ciel de l'art avec un fracas sublime, m'en illumina les plus lointaines profondeurs. Je reconnus la vraie grandeur, la vraie beauté, la vraie vérité dramatiques.
Mémoires (1870)
Hector Berlioz9
nejvýznamnější francouzský skladatel, dirigent, hudební kri… 1803 - 1869Podobné citáty
„Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.“
— Franz Grillparzer austrian dramatic and writer 1791 - 1872
— Anaïs Nin writer of novels, short stories, and erotica 1903 - 1977
Zdroj: The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 4: 1944-1947
— 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)
— 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.
— 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.
— Heinrich Heine, Wartet nur
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„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
— 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 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
„The photographer in my head says:
Give me peace.
Flash.
Give me release.
Flash.“
— Chuck Palahniuk, kniha Invisible Monsters
Zdroj: Invisible Monsters
„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)
„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)
„The real me lives in words, not in what words mean.“
— Anne Sexton poet from the United States 1928 - 1974