Hilde Domin quotes

Hilde Domin quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“A poem is a frozen moment melted by each reader for themselves to flow into the here and now.”
-- Hilde Domin

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“It's a moment that I'm after, a fleeting moment, but not a frozen moment.”

Source : Andrew Wyeth, Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain) (1980). “Andrew Wyeth”
“Mirth, and even cheerfulness, when employed as remedies in low spirits, are like hot water to a frozen limb.”
“The deer hovered by the trees beyond as the sounds of the ravening wolves came to them across the grass, their own senses almost frozen in impotent horror.”
“I want to start a trend of women as we really look. Some good things, some not so good. I am tired of looking at frozen faces.”

Source : "Book World: Debra Winger on 'Undiscovered'". The Washington Post Interview, www.washingtonpost.com. July 22, 2008.
“If you eat dead, toasted, fried or frozen food, you will feel dead, toasted, fried and frozen.”
“Dreams grow holy put in action; work grows fair through starry dreaming, But where each flows on unmingling, both are fruitless and in vain.”
“The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.”
“Drink is the feast of reason and the flow of soul.”
“But grace has only one direction that it can take. Grace always flows down.”

Source : Alexander Whyte (1903). “The apostle Paul”
“Here is the path to the higher life: down, lower down! Just as water always seeks and fills the lowest place, so the moment God finds men abased and empty, His glory and power flow in to exalt and to bless.”

Source : Andrew Murray (2005). “Humility”, p.19, Whitaker House

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