Jacques Roubaud quotes

Jacques Roubaud quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“And of the fact that every vision of the past is a vision of the blind”
-- Jacques Roubaud

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“Poetry is the memory of language”
-- Jacques Roubaud

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“Often we want people to pray for us and help us, but we always defeat our object when we look too much to them and lean upon them. The true secret of union is for both to look upon God, and in the act of looking past themselves to Him they are unconsciously united.”
“I can't tell you where a poem comes from, what it is, or what it is for: nor can any other man. The reason I can't tell you is that the purpose of a poem is to go past telling, to be recognised by burning.”
“If you don't have a vision for the future, then your future is threatened to be a repeat of the past.”
“The experience youâ€™ve had may be unwanted, may amount to nothing but damage and waste, but experience has substance, is factual, authoritative, lives on in your past and affects your present, whatever you attempt to do about it.”
“Through all the relationship stuff I've gone through in the past few years, I know there are fundamental differences in how men and women view sex and how they view their futures.”
“To pray is to dream in league with God, to envision His holy visions.”
“Vision, the hallmark of leadership, is less a derivative of spreadsheets and more a product of the mind called imagination.”
“Jesus' own witness of sacrificial love and forgiveness, and his work to heal the sick and care for those in need, represent God's ways and vision for us.”

Source : "The Bible and Congressman Broun" by Adam Hamilton, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 11, 2012.
“The very fact that the jaguar can become extinct while the Pekingese survives indicates to me that someone hasn't thought this thing through.”
“I take it, therefore, to be a fact, that one's existence ends with death. I think it possible to show how this fact can be emotionally acceptable.”

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