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The Call
«When the whistle blew and the call stretched thin across the night, one had to believe that any journey could be sweet to the soul.»
«The struggle of literature is in fact a struggle to escape from the confines of language; it stretches out from the utmost limits of what can be said; what stirs literature is the call and attraction of what is not in the dictionary.»
Author: Italo Calvino
(Essayist, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
attraction, confines, dictionary, escape from, stirs, stretches, The Call, utmost
«The law is not thrust upon man; it rests deep within him, to waken when the call comes.»
Author: Martin Buber
(Interpreter, Philosopher, Translator)
| Keywords:
rests, The Call, thrust, waken, wakened, wakening
«The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.»
Author: Hermann Hesse
(Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Death and dying
| Keywords:
affirmative, Call of, The Call, transformation, transformations
«The best is he who calls men to the best. And those who heed the call are also blessed. But worthless who call not, heed not, but rest.»
«What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real.»
Author: Rabindranath Tagore
(Essayist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Art
| Keywords:
Call of, creative, Of Man, response, The Call
«The greatest trouble with most of us is that our demands upon ourselves are so feeble, the call upon the great within us so weak and intermittent that it makes no impression upon the creative energies; it lacks the force that transmutes desires into»
Author: Orison Swett Marden
| Keywords:
demands, energies, feeble, impression, intermittent, lacks, The Call, The Force, transmute, transmuted, transmutes, transmuting
«Your mission is proving that a love for the earth, and for the things of the earth, is possible without materialism, a love without greed... I entreat you not to be turned by the call of vulgar strength, of stupendous size, by the spirit of storage,»
Author: Rabindranath Tagore
(Essayist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
Call of, entreat, entreating, entreats, greed, mission, proving, storage, stupendous, The Call, vulgar
«Unto each and every home, into each and every heart, this summons is sent out; the call comes each and every day.»
Author: Sri Guru Granth Sahib
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The Call