Francis Ponge quotes

Francis Ponge quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“Another way of approaching the thing is to consider it unnamed, unnameable.”
-- Francis Ponge

#Way Quotes
“For at the heart of the uniform, reasoning is shaky and elusive: a mind in search of ideas should first stock up on appearances.”
-- Francis Ponge

Source : Francis Ponge, Beth Archer Brombert (1972). “The voice of things”

#Heart Quotes #Ideas Quotes #Mind Quotes
“History - that little sewer where man loves to wallow.”
-- Francis Ponge

#Men Quotes #Littles Quotes

“Science fiction is never about the future, in the same way history is rarely about the past: they're both parable formats for examining or commenting on the present.”
“It is often wonderful how putting down on paper a clear statement of a case helps one to see, not perhaps the way out, but the way in.”
“In the last stage of the spiritual master's life, the devotees of the spiritual master should take preaching activities into their own hands. In this way the spiritual master can sit down in a solitary place and render nirjana-bhajana.”
“To justify God's ways to man.”
“I had casually rented an apartment that cost $75 a month because I expected my writing to pay my way.”
“War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life.”
“The present enables us to understand the past, not the other way round.”

Source : "The Trouble Makers: Dissent over Foreign Policy, 1792-1939". Book by A. J. P. Taylor, 1957.
“Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.”

Source : A. R. Ammons (1996). “Set in motion: essays, interviews, and dialogues”, Univ of Michigan Pr
“Just as modern motorways have no room for ox-carts or wandering pedestrians, so modern society has little place for lives and ways that are too eccentric.”

Source : "The Heart of Things".
“She didn't know then that life has a way of backing you into a corner. You make your choices when you're far too young to understand their implications, and with each choice you make the field of possibility narrows. You choose a career and other careers are lost to you. You choose a mate and commit to loving no other.”

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